Corporal Punishment -- EDPR 2111 Sec 007 TR 0940-1105

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Date Posted: 18:57:48 01/31/07 Wed
Author: Demetria Howard
Subject: Corporal Punishment

Corporal punishment is a discipline technique that I believe should be used as a last resort. When it comes to corporal pnishment, I am neither for it nor against it. The severity of the discipline should depend upon the nature of the behavior. For example, I would not spank my child for receiving a poor progress report if the poor grade was due to her lack of understanding, or maybe she did not have enough time to finish the assignment. But if she failed because she refused to do her work, or was misbehaving, I would punish her.

I believe there is a difference between a parent/teacher spanking a child. First, I feel that discipline starts at home. If parents train their children on how to act, I believe they will behave no matter where they go. And as a parent, I believe that the first time a child misbehaves in public, he/she should be corrected on their behavior right then, right there. It doesn't have to be through corporal punishment. In my opinion, when a parent punishes a child, he/she does it out of love. Not to say that teachers don't love the children, but school is not the place and teachers don't have the time to discipline abrupted children. School is suppose to be a safe haven, kids cant learn through fear.

My stance is the same for nurses. I really can't see the logic behind a nurse punishing a child. Most of the children they come into contact with are supposely if. Nurses and doctors are there to heal not kill.

Again children need to feel safe and loved at and away from home. Corporal punishment is no way to teach a child how to behave.

http://www.apa.org/releases/spanking.html

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