Spanking: The Short-Time Fixture, The Long-Time Burden

Spanking: The short-time fixture, the long-time burden

Good morning parents and acclaimed guests. We are all gathered her on a special day of the year indeed; children’s day. We celebrate this special day in order create awareness of the rights care and education of children. I speak here a parent myself, being experienced in raising several children. Honestly, raise your hand if you have spanked your child (Raise own hand). Recent studies have shown that such practices are not effective long-term wise, but rather quickly solve the problem. Other studies have shown that spanking causes increased aggression and lower cognitive skills in those particular children. Many parents believe that it is an easy way relieve them from having to getting upset at their children but there are several other ways to discipline your child without inflicting any harm.

There is robust evidence of an increased incidence of aggression among children who are regularly spanked. A 2002 meta-analysis of several studies across time periods, countries, and ages found a persistent association: children who are in a punitive environment are more likely to be aggressive, both as a child and as an adult. Many parents spank their children to put an immediate stop to bad behaviour. Being on the receiving end, children may learn to associate violence with power or getting one’s own way. Indeed, much of the aggressive behaviour attributed to children who were spanked differentially tends to correspond to interactions where violence is used to exert power over another person bullying, partner abuse, and so on. Some people say that spanking is acceptable as long as parents set boundaries, such as only use your hand, limit the number of swats and so forth, but not all children are the same. Some children may be stronger willed than others. Parents of those children may find that they will have to hit harder than usual to get a child’s attention. So, clearly boundaries do not work either. Even so, no matter how hard parents spank their children, they will show some form of violence. When a child hits someone else what is the parent supposed to do? Hit them for doing so? I

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