Spanking- Does it lead children to become more violent?
...to misbehave, they can take firmer action, such as taking away a favorite toy or even a “blanky” or “teddy”. Firmly explaining what the child has done and why it is wrong is usually enough. If not, there are less violent punishments for a child. In addition to using less violent punishments, a parent should know that the lessons children learn in the first few years set the pattern for the rest of their lives. What is meant by this is if a child is continually or even occasionally swatted on the butt by his/her parents, that child will grow to think or maybe get the misconception that it is o.k. to hit other people. Think about it. If a parent hits or spanks their child, the child will become accustomed to being hit and will think that it is o.k. to hit. I know. I’ve seen this type of thing happen to young children. I’ve seen it when a child that gets spanked at home and later shows violence at school or other places. The reason the child does this is because he/she has learned or in a way taken lessons of violence from his/her parents at home. Aside from learning violence at home, children start to think that they only need to behave well when their parents are around. The reason for this is because the parents are the ones that are threatening to the child and when the child isn’t around the parents, the child feels free and able to do what he/she wishes again. Yet, if the parent didn’t use an aggressive means of discipline, then the child wouldn’t feel threatened at all. And, if the parents disciplined their children with less violent punishments and sat down with them to explain what was wrong and not to do it again, the child wouldn’t feel intimidated and more likely to listen without being frightened. Less violent punishments are is also good because spanking emotionally confuses children, teaching them that anger allows people to hit others, even loved ones. I can confess to this because I know a couple that spanks their children. The couple has two children and their eldest son started showing violence at school and the youngest is starting to show violence at home, also. The couple took their oldest c...