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? What sort of punishment should parents and teachers be allowed to use to teach good behavior to children? Give reasons for your answer and include relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

Children

need to acquire a cognitive

skill

which allows them to distinguish the bad from the good

while

they are young. Some insist that penalties can help

children

gain

this

skill

quickly. In my opinion, physical

punishments

should be avoided but other methods

such

as

time

outs are effective and parents and teachers should be allowed to use them.

Firstly

, the ways to raise

children

have changed over the past few decades. Physical

punishments

used to be often seen at home and school.

However

, since the law tightened the restrictions on

punishments

, the rate of corporal

punishments

have

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reduced and there are alternatives created by psychologists and researchers. One well-known method to teach young

children

, whose age

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between two and eight, proper manners is called

time

out.

This

is recommended by most

pediatricians

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as a way to curb negative behaviours ranging from talking back to aggressive acts.

This

method is totally different from corporal

punishments

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.

Secondly

, corporal

punishments

tend to leave

children

with mental or physical trauma,

whereas

time outs

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are not harmful but effective. When

children

get aggressive and do not stop after

warning

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a warning

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, leave them alone for a few minutes, which makes them calm down and think their tantrum does not solve the situation.

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clear reason for

this

punishment and infrequency

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required but

this

method can be utilized to prevent parents from giving emotional verbal or physical attacks.

To conclude

,

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between the bad and good is an essential

skill

for

children

at an early stage and I believe that

time

outs are beneficial to gain

this

skill

.