Some people say that the best way to teach children to behave well is to punish them. Others argue that rewarding and praising children is a better way to teach them the difference betweeen right and wrong. Discuss both views and give your own opinion.

There are different approaches in teaching

children

to behave well, and the main debate on

this

topic is whether to punish

children

or to

use

a rewarding and praising system. While one group of people asserts that

punishment

is the only

way

to train

children

to behave, others maintain that rewarding and praising is a better

way

. From my ,perspective it is important to

use

both methods simultaneously and at the right time in order to reach better results. People who claim that

punishment

is the only

way

, in

this

case,

this

case are not completely wrong and their opinion is maybe based on their experience in teaching the

children

. It is possible that parents, who have already passed the period when they had to train their

children

to behave well, had significant results by using

this

method, and maybe they have never tried different ways which

also

can be efficient and,

therefore

, they are claiming that

punishment

is the only and the best style.

Furthermore

, one can be led by methods used to teach a dog to behave using negative impulses for bad

behaviour

which can be

also

implemented in training the

children

.

On the other hand

, there are people who claim that the

use

of rewards and praise are better and more efficient ways. Those parents can be

also

led by their experience with the

children

which means that if they found

this

method is the best

way

for their

children

,

then

they will always advocate

this

method as the best one.

Also

, some parents can be unwilling to punish their

children

and maybe they feel guilty when they do that, so they are more likely to

use

the rewarding methods because they want to avoid the feeling of guilt and sadness. To sum up, there are the two most common ways to train

children

and both are not wrong and can be used successfully based on parent’s and

children

’s personality. In my opinion, using

punishment

for bad

behaviour

and rewarding for good

behaviour

could have the best results, because it has both positive and negative signals that can help the

children

to better understand what is acceptable and what is unacceptable

behaviour

.