Kids Will Be Kids : Is No Longer The Case?

Parents are afraid that if they don’t give their children harsh discipline they will grow to become incompetent members of society. This is a valid concern; no caregiver would ever want to see their child fail. Parents are also imperfect, they become frustrated and tired. Sometimes corporal punishment can be easier to dole out instead of a more productive strategy. What mostly keeps the cycle of corporal punishment going is the “My parents hit me and I turned out just fine” argument. If violent punishment is all someone has ever known, it’s understandable that they would turn to that form of discipline in adulthood. When looking at corporal punishment in this context, it seems entirely justified; however, this would be ignoring a multitude of data that describes the ill-effects

One of the main points in the article “Why America Should Outlaw Spanking” by Emily Bazelon is about how many rights parents have in America. The main example talked about in this article is about corporal punishment and whether or not parents have the right to spank their child or not. Reasons being that some extreme parents take it too far sometimes, leaving bruises and possibly even fracturing bones. Politian’s believe that outlawing spanking would assist the courts in help make a ruling about child abuse. Spanking is a necessary evil that helps correct incorrect behavior. Growing up in the 90’s and early 2000’s we were always told that if

“Sticks and stones may break bones, but words make psychological scars that never heal”(Mr. Turner). A play on the common idiom, “sticks and stones may break my bones but words may never hurt me.” Which was once used by parents universally to justify name calling and harsh words, now sheds light on the darker, often unseen wounds of words. These wounds and scars, both psychological and physical fall under abuse and can be ensured, worsened, or inflicted further by harmful social norms. Social norms are pushed on children from birth and throughout their life as an unwritten set of rules that all people must live by in their society. This string of abuse has left a countless number of victims in its wake and continues to do so till this day.

Her credentials are professional nanny with “twenty-five years experience of helping families." Her stake in this issue is to help “parents transform the troublesome behavior of children and bring more peace and harmony to families.” She aims this book at parents of toddlers and young children. Her purpose is to persuade readers that discipline is not a bad thing and inform readers the proper way of implementing effective discipline techniques. She writes in an effort to “change that perception here and now because… parents’ inner conflict over the idea of discipline has led to lax, inconsistent, and ineffective methods of disciplining children, resulting in their being raised without proper limits and boundaries, and ultimately without respect, empathy, and compassion for others.” She claims that by implementing her five toddler rules parents will head in the right direction to creating “well-behaved respectful individuals.” She argues as related to the topic, discipline absolutely must not be physical… I’m credited in Great Britain with being responsible for 67 percent of parents now choosing not to spank, by helping them learn effective nonphysical discipline techniques. She reports a statistical ratio of parents who were spanked as children and currently claim to spank their children (sharp decline). She reports her findings resulted because the adulds who recieved corporal punishment as

Child abuse is a very serious issue here in the United States. Child abuse is defined as the physical, mental, sexual abuse or exploitation, negligent treatment, or maltreatment of a child who is under the age 18 (Pro Quest Staff). Many of the children get abused by the person in charge of the child's care. This includes loved ones of the child, people who the child once could trust. In the all U.S. states allow parents to hit/spank their children in the manner of discipline.

Did you know that in America, around 60% of all parents spank their kids? With so many people disciplining their kids, is it possible that all of those people have been doing it wrong. This old act of disciplining might be on the verge of being outdated and useless like the telegraph. Plus, it never benefits the poor kids. For example, this violent action can cause emotional or behavioral problems and might affect their childhood.

In this generation parents do not like to spank or discipline their children. They don’t like doing this because they think it could hurt their children if they do so. When a child does something wrong they act a certain way, and get into trouble they should get spank for what they did. When a child gets into trouble they should be spanked for it because it teaches great life skills when it comes to it.

There are many things in our society today that unfortunately go overlooked. One such thing that is overlooked is the number of children who are being abused. Unfortunately these children are going through life not knowing whether or not their parents will loose their temper and perhaps kill them. There are many types of child abuse, such as physical, sexual, and emotional. Physical abuse is physical injury as a result of punching, beating, kicking, biting, shaking, throwing, stabbing, choking, hitting, burning, or otherwise harming a child. Such injury is considered abuse regardless of whether the caretaker intended to hurt the child. Sexual abuse includes activities by a parent or caretaker such as fondling a child's genitals,

Almost all children can name a time when they have gotten discipline. In fact in America alone 80% of kids have been disciplined in their lifetime. In out of that 80% of kids, 62% of the kids have said they have been disciplined by spanking. Spanking had become the norm in many household across America. In fact, the percentage of spanking in America is increasing by 5% each year. But why is spanking so popular in America you may be wondering? Well surprisingly it has a lot to do with traditions, adults who are parents in the 21st century grew up hearing “spare the rod and spoil the child” or “take a paddle to you “causing them to be accustom to spanking because it was used frequently in their childhood. They were taught from a young age

Our society allows police, council officials, and other busy bodies dictate how parents should raise their children. A scolding, smack in the face, and a spanking on the butt are all forms of punishment. A punishment is a tool used by parents to discipline their children for misbehavior. Abuse is a commonly thrown around term that offers an inflated meaning to punishment. bell hooks states in her article that a parent cannot “love” if they are “abusive.” Care for individuals’ actions is love; if a child is not reprimanded for bad behavior then the parent is further being abusive. Each and every parent loves their child and to have people dictate on how to raise their child is acceptable to a point. bell hooks deals an absolute, which is

There is no clear cut definition of what constitutes child abuse and neglect. Is a mother who sits on her phone while her child plays safely in the yard neglectful? Or does it become neglect when some form of harm come to the child? The state upholds a parent right to use punishment and restraint on disobedient children. The law states that the discipline be reasonable and moderate. What constitutes reasonable or moderate? Spanking a child with an open hand on their bottom is considered a moderate and reasonable punishment, but at what point does it become abuse? When a child is spanked a certain amount of times? When they are spanked for crying? These are grey areas where one person may consider the punishment to be acceptable and someone else to consider it abuse. There are children who perhaps should be removed from homes when they aren’t and then continue to face abuse and others who are removed from homes where other methods could have been used to help the

Kids get extremely out of control, although some parents do not know how to control their child or children and want to know a way to teach them how to respect what their parents say. Spanking can solve this issue, some say its child abuse, but it’s just discipline since 2014 close to 81% of Americans agree with spanking, but since it has dropped, as parents decide to spoil their kids and when they're bad they take away a video game for a little while. Spanking should be accepted in every state where it is not considered child abuse, parents should accept that and should learn to discipline their kids.

The children of today are getting away with too much. The discipline parents are able to enable in their own households is very minimal. Kids think they can walk all over their parents and think they are the alpha or omega.

Child Abuse. How does one decide what constitutes abuse? Is there a thin line between abuse and discipline? We often hear the horrific stories of child abuse in our communities, but are we as a society so used to hearing these stories that we have become desensitized to them?

Corporal punishment in these days has been becoming a topic in many old timers talks. Many believe that it helps and is definitely the way to go. The older generations still seem to believe that society would be better off if kids still got punished the way they did. They refuse to ignore data that has not supported the clams they bring up about making children better behaved or as they call it “Straightening them up”. Many believe that our liberal democracy population has views that are not valid and that the old ways need to come back to help us grow.