“Downfalls of Spanking your Children”

Parents who spank their children to get the child to listen or cooperate are not taking the appropriate action of disciplining their child. The end results will lead to an angry child. Three negative results from spanking your child as a form of discipline are; the child might feel unwanted or not loved by parent, and will become violent towards other children or adult peers, the child might feel angry and confused with parent, and might not fully understand his/ or hers behavior, which results to behavior being repeated.

Violent behavior is performed by a child in situations where the child cannot communicate his/ or her point. In most cases, the behavior is learned from a parent or peer spanking the child to communicate that child has done something “bad”, or “wrong”. In most cases, the child usually gets spanked from the pettiest act to the most serve act of rebellion because parent usually gets frustrated or impatient with child and spanks the child to get them to listen. This act from the parent only results to child feeling unwanted or not loved by parents. The child only acts out to get attention from parent in most cases.

In the contrary, there are children that are brought up getting lots of attention from parents and peers. In other words the child is spoiled. So, the minute the child does not receive this attention from someone, he/ or she may act out becoming disruptive and defiant. This can affect a child in ways that can be long-term. It can affect them in relationships, workplaces and school. The child/ or adult might feel the need of getting obsessive attention from everyone, might feel the need to be the center of attention in situations with others. It could result to being selfish, stumbled in growth, because their constantly depending on others advice or approval/ disapproval.