corporal punishment

             Many parents are using corporal punishment to discipline their children, without realizing that they using the wrong way of discipline. Child's misbehavior is making a parent angry, especially when parent can not get child's attention.
             Corporal punishment means using force and physical pain when parent get frustrated by child's problem behavior. Parents beware of corporal punishment because is has a negative long-lasting effect on children's emotional state and leads to physical aggression. Instead, parents should find a positive way to discipline their children.
             What is the Corporal punishment and why parents using it as a discipline technique? Spanking, slapping, kicking, grabbing, shaking and hitting with objects are popular forms of getting child's attention, those are some of the forms of Corporal punishment. In Beating the Devil Out of Them, Murray A. Straus uses a following definition for Corporal punishment: " Corporal punishment is the use of physical force with the intention of causing a child to experience pain, but not injury, for the purpose of correction or control of the child's behavior(4) Punishment is a key word to control children. When the other way of discipline fails many parents use a physical punishment as a way to discipline, to teach child a lesson, but they don't realize that this kind of lesson has negative effect on children's life.
             Corporal punishment does not work. It does not have a long-lasting effect on behavior, although it creates different kinds of side-effects. Corporal punishment is harmful to children. It could lead to emotional problems. "It can be truly traumatic if the most loved and trusted figure in the child's life suddenly caries out a painful attack. The consequence can be post-traumatic stress syndrome that creates deep, lifelong psychological problems" (Straus,10). If Corporal Punishment used as a discipline, ch...

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