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Spanking Informative Speech

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1. (Tell the Story of my friend and his son rough housing)
2. Spanking children is an act where the parent and/or governing figure in the child’s immediate circle slap the child, mainly on the buttocks as a punishment. This is very harmful to the physiological and neurological development of children.
3. Based on the many of the online articles and journals from different academic sources like the oxford journal, the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences I have read personally, I am confident that the damaging effects of spanking outweigh the positives.
4. I’ll be covering how Spanking children should be against the law in the USA because of the harmful effects it has on a child’s development, self-image, and there are better …show more content…

In the USA roughly around 70 to 85 percent of parents admit to practice corporal punishment (Spanking) in their homes, but will little knowledge to what it actually does to the child’s development
1. Spanking lowers IQ and reduces the amount of gray matter in the brain.
a. Grey matter could be compared to a computers processing power. Basically the more gray matter the more you can process.
b. This particularly shows it self more commonly in academic circles like math.
2. Spanking also has strong links to the development of certain conditions later in life like depression and addiction.
3. Spanking in extreme cases has also the ability to cause children to develop a neurological condition called basic shame.
a. Basic shame is a condition that develops when you don’t feel unconditionally loved by one’s parents (especially by one’s mother)
b. What does it do: It reduces development in the orbital frontal cortex (the part of the brain behind your eyes), it is the part of your brain that helps you way the out come of rick and judgment.
i. This is typically smaller in boys then in girls.
1. Now we know why boy do crazy things like jump off of roofs and stuff; they literally can’t measure the out come of their actions and for most this doesn’t activate till they are 25-26. Then all the sudden our dating lives made …show more content…

We can discipline our children and not have to physically hurt them.
A. There is a teaching technique that it’s actually pretty simple and effective though that can very much replace spanking
1. Frist you want to affirm the child’s identity then instructed them on how to IMPROVE the way they reacted a. (Tell the ending to the story of my friend and his son)
B. If that doesn’t work graduate to time outs.
1.Time outs has a lot of backing that it actually encourages long term behavior change more hem spanking
2. Spanking on the other hand has been proven to be a more short-term solution.
3. These thing help create a safe loving environment where children and learn and develop.
Now that we got a picture painted we can now look and see…
The Visualization Step
III. Not spanking children improves a great many thing in their lives and prevent even more.
A. When we spank children we are crating a very unhealthy environment for children.
1. We can hurt their academic success.
2. Increase chances of children developing addictions, depression later in life.
3. Basic shame can develop.
4. Spanking doesn’t even work that well for modifying behavior in the long run.
B. When we don’t spank our

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