Spanking is a subjective issue in which there is no hard-and-fast rule to determine such indistinct matters as excesses, reasonability, and the like. There is no scale of measurement, no universal monitoring, no teaching-and-correcting school. Parents wing this one.If you are like most parents, you've faced sassiness, arguing, fighting, tantrums, disobedience, meanness, backtalking, lying, stealing, and then some. Or you will face them soon in varying measures at every stage of your child's development.
How do you handle problems like these? How does one reason with a screaming one-year-old? Should I ignore my two-year-old in the hope that she will get tired and fall off to sleep? How should I discipline my three-year-old's naughty conduct? Do I bribe my seven-year-old to get the best out of him? What is the best way to treat with disciplining at each stage?There are parents and professionals who think spanking is ineffective and who offer complete packaged information on "positive parenting," aka non-spanking. Others think spanking is abusive, and still others say abuse is never an issue if the parent administers a reasonable spanking without the excesses that may constitute cruelty or mistreatment.
Researchers continue hypothesising that corporal punishment does long-term injury to a child's mental health and psyche, even concluding that spanking breeds aggression, spitefulness, and such untoward conduct in the growing child.Debunking any suggested benefits of spanking, the Web site claims, "Corporal punishment has repeatedly been linked with nine other negative outcomes, including increased rates of aggression, delinquency, mental health problems, and problems in relationships with their parents."Conversely, the pro-spankers at www.goodparent.org say, "There is a paucity of published research focusing on ordinary, non-abusive disciplinary spanking of young children administered by loving, well-intentioned parents."
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