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Home Tips > Tips By Category > Tips you can implement daily Spanking or smacking is a traditional form of child discipline, applied on the buttocks. In North American English, this practice is usually known as "spanking", whereas in British and Commonwealth English "smacking" is used; with "spanking" usually exclusively referring to erotic spanking.
In western society, there has been much debate over spanking in particular and corporal punishment as effective methods of child discipline. Spanking (not any beating), by today's definition, consists of striking the buttocks repeatedly, with either an open hand or various implements including a belt, martinet, switch, hairbrush or paddle.
Non-violent child discipline has grown in popularity, but continues to be controversial. It is generally time-intensive, and thus best-suited to parents of very small families. Results from these methods of child discipline will vary dramatically according to the child's personality, depending greatly upon the child's desire to please and upon the child's stubbornness.
There are many effective non-violent methods of child discipline available to parents when discipline is necessary. While they are mainly advocated by many experts in child development and by opponents of spanking or other forms of corporal punishment of children, they are also often utilized by parents who spank as well. These alternatives methods of child disciplines are not complicated, but they do require parents to be willing and able to give more time and thought to discipline, to exercise self-control, to be considerably imaginative, and to be quick-thinking.
These non-violent methods of child discipline available to parents include: time-out, hugging, distraction, reasoning, consequence, modeling, praise, and consistency. Time-out technique is recommended by many podiatrists, and developmental psychologists as an alternative to spanking. Another form of disciplinary restraint is hugging. Distraction technique is a method of stopping young children from continuing a problem behavior. Often, when a child misbehaves, there are natural consequences. Advocates of the "consequential" approach state that these consequences should be their discipline, and that in this way the lesson will be remembered far longer than will punishment. In addition, advocates of non-violent discipline state that modeling is an extremely effective disciplinary tool, but it also places the greatest demands upon the parent. Praise and rewards (hugs, time with the child, etc.) for good behavior similarly goes much further as discipline than does punishment, while nagging and shaming tear down both trust and respect for the parent.
Most proponents of non-violent child discipline state that of all disciplinary tools, the greatest is consistency.
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