Spanking In Children

As an only child my parents have always spoiled me and wanted the best for me. However, when I did something that was completely unacceptable, I encountered a spanking. Punishments were a way for my parents to teach me that my actions weren’t always the best decisions. Different wrongdoings resulted in different forms of punishment, which ranged from certain privileges being taken away to spankings. Although, during the times I was being punished I felt a sort of resentment towards my parents, I later came to realize that all the tough love was for my own good. A parent has to be able to know and love their child well enough to be able to notice when a spanking should be mandated. Spanking enforces good behavior, lets the child know who is
Every child is individually different; therefore it is crucial that a parent gets to know their child in order to see what forms of punishment work for them. I’ve known many people who had been spanked growing up that are grateful that their parents had raised them the way they did. I have yet to meet someone who was spanked and resented their parents for it. When a parent is consistent with the spanking it let’s the child know that this action that they keep doing isn’t ok and thus enables them to not do it again. Ruben Navarrette, wrote in his CNN article that “Fear is essential to respect. Children won't do what we tell them to do, unless -- at some level -- they fear the consequences that will come from not doing it.” Parents need to understand that they have a duty to raise their child the right way and that they are a parent first and a friend second. The resentment that a child will have, if any, is
Are the people they are studying ok, themselves? An article by Suzee Skwiot states, “One-third of babies are spanked. In a study that focused on 2,788 families, researchers at the University of Michigan determined that 30 percent of 1-year-olds are spanked,” my question is, why are people spanking babies? Of course these babies are going to grow up being aggressive. They’re being harmed without even knowing why the person they love is hitting them. This is a completely different issue on parents who believe it is ok to spank a baby that has no ability to right their wrongs, if there is even any wrong to be righted. Mel Robbins wrote an article for CNN with the understanding that discipline is child abuse. She illustrates that “Peterson...lost a 2-year-old son at the hands of child abuse when the mother's boyfriend allegedly beat the boy to death -- and less than a year later, police say, Peterson whipped his 4-year-old with a stick, causing cutting and bruising of the back, buttocks, ankles, legs and scrotum of his son. According to the police records, the boy was worried that "Daddy Peterson" would punch him in the face if the child reported the incident to authorities.” The story she states is in fact not discipline but child abuse. However, she uses this example to help illustrate her viewpoint and to manipulate parents into seeing