Spanking Is Wrong

The question is asked , “is there a right or wrong way to discipline a child?” In the old days until 1989, spanking was legal which is the way parents had discipline their children. Before that time studies showed that spanking is the causes of behavior issues in children today. In another study it shows that children who were spanked were well discipline to parents, teacher and all adult figures. Although, some parents goes to far while spanking a child (physical abuse turns into child abuse). Subsequently, this problem cause over discipline which has become illegal. Some study shows that children learns and experience knowledge at an early age; discipline is learned early on as the child develops. Moreover, if parents interact

Yet, a study shows that 50 years of data from more than 160,000 children being spanked as a child is the cause of behavior issues and mental illness (Rollins , 2016). Which is the number one reason children resent their parents and have low self-esteem. Psychologist believes that spanking can do harm to the child if the parent has a history of physical abuse or domestic violent. Parenting is determined by a variety of factor, their age, education level, and social background ( Gershoff, Anasari, Purtell & Sexton,

Punitive discipline is the long-term of low achievement in school, such as punishing and lecturing the child, and limiting non-school activities in response to poor grades in middle school. These results mirror a robust of body literature, showing the negative impact of harsh parenting (Davis- Kean, Tang & Davis - Kean, n.d).

The underline of Parenting It is inevitable that parenting is the product of how parents were raised as a child. Parenting is the act of their own way of discipline as a child. A child learns from their environment, although, there is no right or wrong way to discipline a child. Such as, if parents read to their children at an early age the child would develop a high literature score. Moreover, the parent had the same experience in his or her early years, Piaget’s theory of the process of assimilation,which modify experiences of preexisting beliefs (Cherry, 2017).The mental capacity of parenting is the number one cause of how, what and why children act as an adult. APA offers a program for parents and children, which provide parenting skills, the program is a nationwide research-based program called Parents Raising Safe Kids (Smith,