It's very important that parents refrain from physical punishment as it can have long-lasting impacts. I was spanked as a child i believe i'm better from it, i'm not saying don't spank your kids, i'm saying if there's a different way you can handle the problem do it that way.Gustavo Carlo studied the long-term ramifications of spanking and other forms of physical discipline. While previous studies have shown spanking can have negative effects on child development in the short term, Carl's "Study found children who faced physical discipline in infancy could continue to see negative effects into their teen years. The study looked at data from 1,840 mothers and children. Info was collected on children at 15 months old and 25 month old, and in 5th grade. The study found that African-American children who were severely punished at 15 months were more likely to be delinquent and aggressive in fifth grade. They were also less likely to help others. My mom tried everything before she spanked me or my sisters and most of the time when we got in trouble she would talk with us ask us why we did it and how we were going to fix it and we listened to the talks she didn't have to spank us unless everything else didn't work. In most situations it wasn't needed. Talks worked just as well as spanking. I also was not saying spanking was child abuse, spanking is ok unless you can do something else you haven't tried yet. I'm saying try other things before you turn to spanking your child.
Say your child got into something that was not there's? How would you handle that problem? Would you spank them for it or have a talk with them?
Now say if your child back talked to you, Would you talk to them about it the first time? If it happened again would it be ok for you to spank them?
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2017/08/02/spanking-infant-changes-behavior-as-teen.html
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Interesting topic! Be sure to break your info up into paragraphs so it flows a bit better and is better organized. Also be sure to comment on three different days.
If my child were to get into something that wasn't theirs, I think I would handle it the same way that you said your mother did. I would try other options before I go to physical punishment, but I do think that it's okay. I was spanked as a child, and it was only after my parents had done other things for punishment and they didn't work. I think that it is now frowned upon in our culture because people are looking for anything to blame their problems on.
I think that if my child talked back to me, I would talk to them and give them a less harsh punishment, but if it continued to happen it would eventually lead to physical punishment.
I was spanked in my younger years. I am just fine... honesty my opinion is that what if they have family issues and stuff like that its can be influenced by where they grow up too. Im not saying that its fine to beat your child its totally not but discipline at a young age is fine unless it gets out of hand. I dont plan spanking my children.
I was spanked as well when i was younger and yes i'm fine as well but yes discipline is ok and yes i agree with you that its not ok if it gets out of hand.
That's what i was saying. I was also spanked as a child and i am better bc of it i was say what you just said you understand were i'm coming from.
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I understand there is a line between abuse and punishment. I believe that spanking is a high effective method of discipline if used right. The way I was raised was with spanking. It sounds like your summary is saying that every time a child gets spanked they are being violently and severely hit. That is probably not the case for most spankings. So yes it does make sense that children who were "Severely punished" would be more likely to be delinquent and aggressive, but that is for the most extreme cases. Which would be abuse, not just a spanking.
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