it is important for children to learn the difference between right and wrong at an early age. punishment is necessary to help them learn this distinction. to what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion? what sort of punishment should parents and teachers be allowed to use to teach good behaviour to children?

Learning the difference between right and wrong at an early age is essential for children's growth. While some people believe

punishment

is an effective way to make them do to right thing. I personally believe it is necessarily a good method of teaching children good values. For a variety of reasons, it would be wrong to use

punishment

as

tool

Suggestion

a tool

to make children behave

good

Suggestion

well

better

.

Firstly

,

punishment

might hurt a child's feelings and create

negative impact

Suggestion

a negative impact

on its heart and soul. Little kids cannot distinguish between good and bad, so grownups need to be more forgiving.

For example

, if children say inappropriate words, it would be better for parents or teacher to tell them it is not right to use those words and explain to help them understand why that behaviour is wrong.

Secondly

, punishments in any kind, fails to have a long lasting effect on children's misbehaviour.

This

is because they will not become self conscious about their mistake,

instead

, they will stop their wrong attitude just to avoid

punishment

.

Finally

,

punishment

is not as effective as education is. Parents and teachers should set good examples for children to follow. Children are like a white paper and you can teach them to behave

good

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well

from an early age.

On the other hand

, some methods suggest that

punishment

is something that every child has to be through on the way to become a good person. In fact

punishment

should be based on reason. It has to be light and not too harsh, and it must serve the purpose of education.

For example

, a child breaking her or his toy should be asked to repair it or replace it. He or she should be encouraged to earn money to buy a new one by helping their parents do the housework.

This

kind of

punishment

should be considered as it is reasonable while effectively sending the message that everyone must be responsible for all of their mistakes. In conclusion, punishing children is not what parents and teachers should consider as a priority. Guiding and making the positive message clear to them matters above all these.