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?

At a very young age, children learn by imitating adults' behaviour or things around them.They are not able to distinguish between right and wrong behaviours. To help kids learn the differences,

punishment

is an effective way for parents and teachers.

However

, it is controversial that

this

method would negatively affect the children. In my opinion,

punishment

is a useful method for education as long as it does not badly affect the children physically and mentally.

To begin

with, corporal punishments are common punishments for children’s bad behaviours. These punishments would not help the children learn from their mistakes.

In contrast

, they have a negative impact on children physically and mentally. When parents hit their children, the children would feel hurt or even have scars. If

this

punishment

frequently repeats, the children would become insensitive and miss the bond with their parents. Another example, at school, children are often forced to stand in front of the class for their mistakes, which is embarrassed and humiliated.

Hence

, educational

punishment

which does not cause physical and mental harm is more effective. If a

child

behaves badly, parents and teachers should gently explain how wrong the behaviour is

instead

of yelling at him

/

her or hitting him

/

her. To help the

child

learn from his/ her mistake, parents and teachers can ban the

child

from that bad habit or a hobby of his

/

hers

instead

.

For instance

, when the

child

uses his/ her phone for a long period of time, which negatively impacts the eyes, parents may consider punishing them by taking their phone away or controlling their pocket money, asking him/ her to do the housework for several days. At school,

instead

of detention, teachers should offer them social activities

such

as cleaning up the restrooms or school yard as punishments for their mistakes.

As a result

, the

child

would understand why he

/

she ought not to behave that way and change his/ her morality positively. In conclusion,

punishment

is essential to educate children how to differentiate between good and bad things.

However

, physically and mentally harmful punishments have to be avoided. Constructive punishments are recommended,

instead

.