Smacking is the best method to discipline children. Do you agree or disagree?

The ideal way to discipline children has generated controversy over the years. Some school of thought su
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hat sm
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the act of smoking tobacco or other substances
smoking
s the best way to correct be
havioral problem i
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behavioural problems
behavioural problem
a behavioural problem
n Children.
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essay will explore reasons why corporal
punishment
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is totally unacceptable, and
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suggest alternative forms of disciplining young adults. Corporal
punishment
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has been a traditional way of disciplining children. Advocates of
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method of correction, drew their rationale from beliefs that adult ha
ve a
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has
right, if not a duty, to correct youngsters, as being promoted in religious gatherings and in the communities.
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, they argue that it produces in
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an instant response
o indiscipline.
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, a child that disobeyed the school rule can be flogged at the point rather than suspending or subjecting him to manual la
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a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
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hile class is going on. These few instances, convinced them that sm
acking i
the act of smoking tobacco or other substances
smoking
s probably the best method to discipline a child. Unfortunately, the idea of corporal
punishment
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being the best
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of correcting be
havioral p
of or relating to behavior
behavioural
roblem in Children is misleading. Studies have shown that youngsters subjected to physical pain as a
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of correction end up becoming violent and mentally retarded. Interestingly, there is no empirical data that project children who underwent
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type of training as more successful or responsible than others.If there is no su
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supporting
vidence, of what importance is it, inflicting pain on youngsters? Having said that, disciplining children still remain a necessity, but
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of parents resorting to smacking as a
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of doing that, they should act as a positive role model to their wards, considering that children learn by observing and imitating adults.
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, parents can
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deny them access to a 'thing' they value as a
form
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of
punishment
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when they misbehave. To be exact, my mother seized my fa
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oll when I fought my elder brother as a teenager, and
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of
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, I never re
peated
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repeated in such
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act. To sum up,
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essay discussed why smacking as a
form
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of correcting youngsters is totally unacceptable, and as well suggested other measures that are likely to produce better result. In my opinion, corporal
punishment
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should be outlawed, as it is detrimental to young adults.

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