To Spank Or Not To Spank Analysis
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Greg Pies
EN 110
October 30, 2014
To Spank or Not to Spank
In the article, “Physical Punishment doesn’t help, it hurts” by Deborah Sendek, it covers the reasons as to why physical punishment from a parent to their child is the wrong way to handle the situation. The main reason parents use physical punishment as a way of handling bad behavior is because their parents did it to them when they were young. There is spanking and then there is abuse; where to draw the line?
When I think of the word “child”, I think of the word “innocent”, because that’s what children are, they are just young, open-minded humans that do not know the difference between right and wrong. Parents are a child’s number one idol and who they look up to …show more content…
It is due to lack of education in raising a child and understanding the way they behave. They do not know other ways of handling it and most of all, because it is the laziest, quickest way to deal with it. People in America are lazy, and it’s usually the parents with low-income. They don’t want to take the time to talk about the reasons why what the child did was wrong. So, spanking or hitting them will “teach” them not to do it again. Except, it doesn’t actually teach them for the right reasons. I think people who become pregnant should have to take parenting classes required by law to teach them how to understand where a child’s mind-set is and how to handle it at that phase. People think that since their parents did it to them, it is the right thing to do. We have more knowledge than we did back then. We know how physical punishment affects a child now. One example would be when a certain group doesn’t believe in medicine healing people, they believe God will take care of them and then the next thing you know, the baby is dead. Just because people have done it before, doesn’t mean it’s the right thing to
Greg Pies
EN 110
October 30, 2014
To Spank or Not to Spank
In the article, “Physical Punishment doesn’t help, it hurts” by Deborah Sendek, it covers the reasons as to why physical punishment from a parent to their child is the wrong way to handle the situation. The main reason parents use physical punishment as a way of handling bad behavior is because their parents did it to them when they were young. There is spanking and then there is abuse; where to draw the line?
When I think of the word “child”, I think of the word “innocent”, because that’s what children are, they are just young, open-minded humans that do not know the difference between right and wrong. Parents are a child’s number one idol and who they look up to …show more content…
It is due to lack of education in raising a child and understanding the way they behave. They do not know other ways of handling it and most of all, because it is the laziest, quickest way to deal with it. People in America are lazy, and it’s usually the parents with low-income. They don’t want to take the time to talk about the reasons why what the child did was wrong. So, spanking or hitting them will “teach” them not to do it again. Except, it doesn’t actually teach them for the right reasons. I think people who become pregnant should have to take parenting classes required by law to teach them how to understand where a child’s mind-set is and how to handle it at that phase. People think that since their parents did it to them, it is the right thing to do. We have more knowledge than we did back then. We know how physical punishment affects a child now. One example would be when a certain group doesn’t believe in medicine healing people, they believe God will take care of them and then the next thing you know, the baby is dead. Just because people have done it before, doesn’t mean it’s the right thing to