Consequences Of Corporal Punishment On Children

Parents fail to understand what children are going through so they misinterpret their actions to be disobedient. When a child does not perform well in school or does not do what the parents want, instead of trying to be patient and, find out and encourage the child, they are instead punish them.

Consequences of discipline on children, their reactions and how they deal with it

The act of disciplining a child is necessary for parenting. The use of physical/corporal punishment on children leads to some devastating long-term or short-term effects. Corporal punishment models aggression in children. In some cases;, children at times grow to discipline their children the same way they were disciplined as can be seen to the point above why the parents

That is why for fear of causing long strain relationship, parents use other forms of discipline on their children so as to avoid future restraints.

Negative behavioral outcome is common with children who are physically abused. Rather than responding to discipline and changing, they become stubborn and aggressive. Here, they do what they want keep doing what they want to please themselves and later receive treatment. Children become adapted to such form of punishment. Harsh punishments do not work on teenagers.

. Hitting a child might at times lead to unforeseen consequences; result to a physical damage such as; body injuries, loss of an eye, and other health problems which at times leads to death. A cause of psychological damage to children is very common with such forms of punishment. The pains inflicted are felt by the children even after a long period of time, thus creating anti-social behavior.

Corporal punishment have long term effects on children in that in a harsh environment, long-term detriment effects on children’s intelligence and their executive functioning ability are affected. Thus, children exposed to such environments tend to have behavioral problems. (ScienceDaily,

In family cases (especially with the upper class society), where children are left to do what they want, and have choices to decide what they fell like usually gives room to disrespect people, the intake of alcohol at a very tender age and involvement in early sexual activities. This is common between the ages of 12-15 years). Setting a dangerous precedent that certain work does not need to be done unless compensation is on the table, might lead the child to rely on external motivations only to do things which can make school work and future employment hard. .

Though what is felt during and after the act of corporal punishment as a form of discipline, there are some people in Cameroon society today who will attest that these forms of discipline molded them into being what they are today.

How children/youths portray themselves in the society could be expressed in the form of Agency. With Agency, it involves free will, an actor/construction of their own life, act on social world individually of social constraints and active role of individual. At this stage, they become agents in the context of development. According to Giddens, an agent is a human with transformative capacity is highly connected to power. To him, an agency is considered as a capability to do something, rather than the intension of doing something (Honwana,