The article, “Our view on corporal punishment: To spank or not to spank?” says that forbidding physical punishment might encourage children. Sally Lieber, California Assemblywoman, says that she will innovate a bill that forbids physical punishment. If it is adopted, California will be the leading state to forbid parents from slapping their children. However, there are many contrary opinions, because injury that is caused by abuse violence is illegal already. Also, the government can’t interfere people’s private life. In addition, contrary opinion said physical punishment is an effective way to punish children sometimes. On the other hand, it is true that African-American children are spanked twice as much as students who are of other races.
Forbidding physical punishment might encourage children; however, there are other ways to punish their children.
First, physical and psychological punishment can be help children. When I was a child, my parents spanked me every time, if I did wrong behavior. Their parents spanked most children about fifty years ago. When my parents spanked me, I felt regret and penitence psychologically. Also I felt painful physically, so I swore that I wouldn’t do wrong things again.
Second, removing rewards can help children. For example, if parents give money to their children regularly, their reducing the amount of that money may work to correct their behavior. Children can’t earn money yet; therefore they need money from parents. So, they try to correct their bad behavior. This punishment works psychologically I believe.
Last, give tasks for children that may be help for children. Parents should give them a task, like they have to clean bathroom one week when they did the wrong thing. I classify this as physical punishment. I think spanking children is not only physical punishment. To give children physical fatigue can be a physical punishment.
In conclusion, children need some punishment when they did wrong things, but there is not only spanking them. Parents can give them physical punishment, psychological punishment, and physical and psychological punishment. Recently, physical punishment is getting banned in social life. However, we have to know that not only slapping children is physical punishment. We have many ways to punish our own child besides spanking them.
“Our view on corporal punishment: To spank or not to spank?” (January 25, 2007). USA TODAY. Retrieved 2008, February 28. from http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2007/01/post_35.html
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