Analysis Of Molly Castelloe's Article How Spanking Harms The Brain

To spank or not to spank, that is a question. This is a question many parents will ask of themselves, me included. I am the mother of a beautiful toddler and she can be very difficult and often quite ornery sometimes. Not a day goes by, that I do not worry if I am making the best decisions for her upbringing and I worry how the decisions I make will impact her overall life. Do I follow in my parents footsteps? Do I listen to my pediatrician? My parents always believed in discipline no matter what the form it may have been. I can remember countless hours of standing in the corner because I couldn’t resist fighting with my siblings. My parents were not huge fans of spanking, but if we got out of control, or if they were unable to reason with
These individuals believe, it can lower a child’s IQ and hinder their learning. In her article “How Spanking Harms the Brain,” Molly Castelloe Ph.D. writes, “Spanking gets quick results, but it doesn't reduce the undesired behavior. In addition to detrimental physiological effects, it may also inflict lasting emotional damage that inhibits the learning process.” (par. 7) In my opinion I think if I child wasn’t abused and just spanked; Molly Castelloe’s conclusion is bogus. That being said, Del Jones writes that USA Today conducted interviews with about 20 CEO’s that said that they were spanked in one form or another. Some of the CEO’s that they interviewed were, Mark Cuban, John Chambers (Cisco system), and Dave Haddner (Leggett and Platt) to name a few. A person would have to be disciplined and intelligent to be able to establish that title and run a company. From the CEO’s point of view, it would seem that spanking has served its purpose, and taught the lessons it was intended; that there were no ill effects to their
She witnessed him behaving in a manner that was unacceptable by her standards and addressed it immediately to stop the behavior. The mother at first was demonized by the media for beating her child and physically abusing him. When the public started responding with heralds such as “mother of the year” and “bring out the mothers”, it reinforced the mindset of the appropriate level of discipline for the situation. In reality this mother saved her child from probable arrest and even possible injury or death. When ABC News interviewed the sixteen year old he admitted he knew what he was doing was wrong, and his mother punished him because she loves him and did not want to see him harmed, arrested, or even killed. It is every parent’s duty to protect their children and if having to teach their kids that these behaviors are not acceptable by taking desperate measures, I believe the mother had every right to do what she did. She didn’t overly physically harm the boy in anyway. She was trying to save a life that was very precious to