Corporal Punishment
Corporal punishment is a fancy name of causing physical punishment with a view to correct behavior of a child.
The history of physical punishment is as old as our civilization.
We have been watching and hearing numerous physical punishment stories around us since our early childhood.
Times have changed but it hasn’t.
Almost every parent has spanked, hit, slapped, pushed or caused any other form of physical punishment to their children at some points of time.
They might have done it willingly or unwillingly, with or without pre-planning or having any intention to do it.
They do it because they think this will correct their kids' incorrect behavior.
But does it really works? Lets explore ...
Some people support physical punishment while others are against it. Let's find out their views.
Click on the links below to visit the pages on pro and againt Corporal punishment and come back:
Are you back? Okay! Let's go ahead ...
Let's summarise the good and bad points from both sides in a table. It'll help us analyze easily and properly:
From the comparision given in the table above, it is very clear that physical Punishment does more harm than good to the child.
Physical punishment is not only bad but dangerous.
There have been numerous cases where parents have committed heinous offences under the garb of disciplining their kids.
In West Virginia, a man spanked his son for two hours, which killed the little boy.
The only crime the little boy committed was that he disobeyed one of God's law,
which was unacceptable to the fundamentalist Christian father.
The father felt it justified to give his son hell.
Most of us have grown with various form of physical punishment in almost acceptable way.
So we tend to use the same way to discipline our kids.
It seems to show immediate results and therefore we tend to believe that it is very effective.
Every parent thinks that “He/she is always right”.
So for the parent, kid’s behaving means following parents wishes and commands,
and misbehaving means disobeying parent’s wishes and commands.
But are the parents always right? I’m sure no one is 100% right all the time.
That means sometimes parents might be wrong,
and these are the times when children are forced to do wrong thing only because their parents think them right.
There are many other healthier ways to teach them discipline.
If we stop physical punishment and simultaneous use other positive discipline techniques like listening,
encouraging, understanding, avoiding criticism and arguments, etc. children begin to cooperate.
Even if stopping physical punishment doesn’t improve the situation immediately, it certainly doesn’t make them worse.
Even this is a great reward that you and your kids can remain the same (howsoever bad) without use of violence.
So even if stopping physical punishment doesn’t make any difference, why do that?
The results may not be dramatic in the begining. But slowly their behavior improves.
The frequency comes down slowly. And the atmosphere at home or school is more peaceful and fun.
It reduces our stress and tension as well.
Lesson ... we need to be more kind, forgiving and patient with our kids.
Return from Corporal Punishment to home
Arguments in favour of physical Punishment
Arguments against physical Punishment
Why do parents spank children
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