You grab her just as she heads into the street and deliver a swift smack on the bum with an admonition, "No running in the street! Have you just committed a crime? People disagree on whether spanking is good or bad.
Many European countries have banned spanking outright. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child has outlawed all physical discipline, even within families. However, the vast majority of American parents spank their young children at some point, and most Americans believe that spanking is a legitimate form of discipline.
Although less common than it used to be, spanking is pervasive in our society. However, anyone who spanks a child should know that sometimes spanking has criminal consequences. While all states currently permit spanking at home, some states have outlawed spanking is schools and daycares, and most states discourage or outlaw spanking in foster homes and institutions for children.
For more information, see Criminal Consequences of Spanking in Schools. Spanking, also called corporal punishment, is a discipline method in which a person inflicts pain on a child without inflicting injury and with the intent to modify the child's behavior.
Forms of corporal punishment include hitting a child's bottom, slapping, grabbing, shoving, or hitting a child with a belt or paddle. Currently, parents in all states have a limited right to spank their children.
Courts have decided that parents have a constitutional right to raise their children as they see fit, including using whatever method of discipline they think is best.
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If the answer to any of these queries is yes, you would be wise to develop a no-spanking mindset in your home and do your best to come up with noncorporal alternatives. If you find you are unable to do this on your own, talk with someone who can help you. Children often perceive punishment as unfair. They are more likely to rebel against corporal punishment than against other disciplinary techniques.
Children do not think rationally like adults, but they do have an innate sense of fairness—though their standards are not the same as adults. This can prevent punishment from working as you hoped it would and can contribute to an angry child. Oftentimes, the sense of unfairness escalates to a feeling of humiliation. When punishment humiliates children they either rebel or withdraw. While spanking may appear to make the child afraid to repeat the misbehavior, it is more likely to make the child fear the spanker.
In our experience, and that of many who have thoroughly researched corporal punishment, children whose behaviors are spank-controlled throughout infancy and childhood may appear outwardly compliant, but inside they are seething with anger. They feel that their personhood has been violated, and they detach themselves from a world they perceive has been unfair to them. They find it difficult to trust, becoming insensitive to a world that has been insensitive to them.
Parents who examine their feelings after spanking often realize that all they have accomplished is to relieve themselves of anger. This impulsive release of anger often becomes addicting—perpetuating a cycle of ineffective discipline. We have found that the best way to prevent ourselves from acting on the impulse to spank is to instill in ourselves two convictions: 1.
That we will not spank our children. That we will discipline them. Since we have decided that spanking is not an option, we must seek out better alternatives. People are more likely to recall traumatic events than pleasant ones. I vividly remember the willow branch scenes. After my wrongdoing, my grandfather would send me to my room.
He would tell me I was going to receive a spanking. I remember looking out the window, seeing him walk across the lawn and take a willow branch from the tree. He would come back to my room and spank me across the back of my thighs with the branch. The willow branch seemed to be an effective spanking tool. It stung and made an impression upon me— physically and mentally. Research has shown that spanking may leave scars deeper and more lasting than a fleeting redness of the bottom.
Here is a summary of the research on the long-term effects of corporal punishment:. The evidence against spanking is overwhelming.
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