Child Punishment

Child Punishment

Is It an Effective Way to Raise Children?

Raising a child is not such an easy task. A lot of parents often have a hard time with raising their children. After all, they don’t come with handbooks or manuals to show parents how they work. It is said that children under the age of ten are at their peak point in the aspect of bad behavior. A lot of parents often give up and don’t know what to do with them. There are some cases where spanking a child just doesn’t work. Arguably you shouldn’t spank your child for every little thing. Walter Hernandez tells in his article: “Parents need to teach their children how to behave” how parents should punish their children in a less physical manner and still have the same effectiveness. It is not completely the child’s fault for the way they act for the simple fact that the parent and environment plays a large role. Parents are supposed to be the child’s guide to make them better than their surroundings. There are many different methods of punishment besides physically. Some include taking away something that they enjoy doing or something as simple as not allowing them to have outside privileges. A factor that has to be considered when you talk about effective punishment is age. A two year old wouldn’t mind staying in the house for a couple days but to a teenager it may seem like forever. Some teenagers don’t even respond to spankings but a two year old might run from the thought. All children don’t deserve physical punishments for little things. Constructive punishment will cause the children to not like the consequences that they have to endure after doing something bad so they will avoid trouble.