Professor Wagnon
English 132.008
13 December 2015
To spank or not to spank?
Spanking has been a topic that has been talked about for some time now. Spanking is a type of corporal punishment involving the act of striking the buttocks of another person to cause physical pain, generally with an open hand. Spanking should be allow as a punishment when dealing with misbehaving children. When spanking children there should be some guidelines of what is not acceptable when spanking children.
When it comes to spanking children, there can be a wrong and a right way to do it. Many parents believe that since they brought this child into the world that have the right to do whatever they believe is right when punishing their own kids. Yes, this may be true, but when you think about it how do social workers or anybody else dealing with children’s well-being figure out what is child abuse and what is not. Is hitting your child in the mouth with your hand when they might have said something that should not have been said the right way to punish them? …show more content…
Like with the idea that you might think what you are trying to teach the child and figure out a way to teach them what you mean like right and wrong and make it a conversation than spanking them and they still really do not understand what they have done wrong and what they need to do to not let the situation happen again.
Also, when you have restricting on spanking it will most likely make parents find different ways to inform their child. So when it comes to things they know that there are not support to do they know ahead of time and less spanking might even occur. Some might think spanking is the lazy way to training up your kids because of the fact that you wait till your child does something wrong without knowing better first and they end up getting in trouble for something that was not clearly explained to be wrong to