Spanking Most Detrimental Punishment for 3-year-old Children

As for others, spanking is wrong because these parents think there can be a future problems from the effect of spanking. Spanking children can lead to emotional, mental and even physical problem as they grow up because the later effects of spanking and abuse caused by the disciplinary action of spanking. While I am against spanking a child, I understand that spanking a child can discipline him/her. Parents control the correction of their children; every parent knows how to make their child listen to them. Some parents threaten to spank their child so the child stops misbehaving immediately because the child does not want to get hit.

Parents who spank their children argue that spanking gets their children to stop the incorrect behavior quickly. In truth, spanking only a temporarily solves the issue because the children do not know why the action was incorrect, so they will repeat it (Pitzer, 2011). Children also learn a new lesson; smack someone when he/she cannot have his/her own way which proves that spanking is unorganized discipline (Pitzer, 2011). Next, parents should avoid spanking their children because it lowers their self-esteem. Children believe that the... ... middle of paper ... ...unt, J.

Although it can seem very practical the moment it is given, it does not improve the child’s behavior and can bring serious effects on the long run. Parents ought to prevent themselves from spanking their children for it can lead to long-term effects to the child such as anti-social behavior and cognitive development. To begin, spanking is seen as an innocent form of physical discipline. However, parents are not aware that spanking contributes to anti-social behavior such as aggressive and violent behavior of children. Children spanked repeatedly become accustomed and learn to believe it is an acceptable behavior, “…spanking sets a bad example, teaching children that aggressive behavior is a solution to their parents' problems” (Park1).

In the same study Slade & Wissow suggest that infants and toddlers do not have the capacity because they have not developed stress. (2004). I can see how this is the case because very young infants and toddlers brains have not developed enough to understand why it is that they are being spanked. It is always sad to hear about a child under the age of two being spanked when all you have to do for infants is take care of their needs and for toddlers redirect their behavior.

Hopson. Corporal punishment, especially when applied to children of a young age, can cause a child to develop a fearful reaction towards the caregiver. Adolescents should feel safe when in the presence of their guardians. However due to this certain type of punishment, a number of youngsters have become afraid to even ask their caregiver a simple question. Karima Haynes testifies that corporal punishment is not effective with children because they only centralize themselves on the fact that they are getting spanked and not on the motive behind it.

If they think what their parents did to them worked, they are wrong. There are other ways to punish a child-like time outs, removal of privileges, or verbal reprimands (Guidance for Effective Discipline). They also may think that it will stop bad behaviors. Again, they would be wrong. Abusing a child will only make them more rebellious and they will become violent in the future (Child Abuse and Neglect Recognizing and Preventing Child Abuse).

In this type of parenting, spoiling the children’s behavior by giving bribes and gifts are their parenting tools instead of setting the boundaries and expectations. Parents are often afraid to set limits as they believe child has to be true to his or her own nature (Traunter, 2017). According to research (2009), children under the permissive parenting approach is more likely to display low achievement in many areas and develop other risky behaviors such as drug use and other forms of misconduct. Children under the permissive parenting grow up without the strong sense of self-discipline. Since the parents don’t set the boundaries for the children, they lack the skills in social setting.

Hitting your child, is teaching them that it is okay to become violent when you’re mad, which is not a good lesson to learn. Also, it could result in your child, bringing these lessons to their own children, and maybe even reflect it on their spouse. Why is it seen as correct, to hit a child for hitting someone else? The irony is that you’re doing wrong, just as they are. You need to teach children, that violence is not the correct way to go about things, so they spread that to everyone around them.

Physical punishment has been a problem in hitting their children so they can have discipline or not hitting them because it is not right, so what can parents do and what can they not do? Should the parents hit them to learn discipline, or should they not hit them and figure out another way to make them learn what discipline is? Because many parents do not know or are confused in showing their children how to gain discipline they do not know whether to hit them or not to hit them. Many people think that by hitting their children that they are showing them violence but other people say that if you do the children would understand that they did something wrong and would not repeat it and gain discipline. What can parents do?

Parents must use discipline to teach children right from wrong. Some opinions still lean toward spanking being a form of abuse and that spanking a child is unacceptable because striking a young child will not actually teach them to be good. Some say spanking also hurts children mentally and spanking a child is no different from hitting someone else. Parent should have the choice to use spanking