Corporal Punishment: Why Physical Punishment On Children Is Unacceptable

The parents' tendency to euphemism has led them to avoid seeing certain punitive techniques as they are. The time-out or the chair-of-thinking are still punishments wrapped in words that pretend to make them tolerable. It is also a euphemism for logical consequences that are often used to camouflage what is essentially a punishment.

Tactics such as these are frequent in many homes and schools: humiliating children by what they say or why they do not say, in front of their friends and colleagues, send offensive notes to their parents, withdraw or prohibit something the child appreciates, send To the director's office, to give extra work, or to put bad notes without deepening in the reasons why the child, supposedly, has not learned the necessary, are forms of punishment. Many still justify and use physical violence against children, for example with a clap on the hand when the young child touches something the adult does not want him to touch.

Sometimes punishments may seem to work but if parents pay attention, they will find that they provide only temporary compliance. Punishment only works while the punisher is present. According to Global Times, the effect of punishment is passed and that it is then necessary to apply a new dose as if it were a drug.

Instead, what happens is that the child is induced to avoid punishment itself. It is likely that a child who is told, "I do not want to catch you doing this again!" "Okay, next time I do, you're not going to catch me."

According to Caring For Kids, punishment only changes a behavior but it has no positive effect on the motives and values of that person to have committed an action. The fact that parents or educators continue to punish the same child again and again indicates that the problem is deeper than simply the type of punishment or the way it is applied.