...Alex Snow a school boy who attended Munro College in Kingston Jamaica , describes his relationship between him and his father as he recalled an incident that happened when he was nine years old. Back in the 1940’s when corporal punishment was most used to correct bad behavior.”They’ll live, don’t worry” was the common idea. That event marked his relationship and trust with his father for life. One day after school snow and his buddies were hanging out on the music block with nothing to do. So what they decided to do was deliberately plan in the remodeling of the block, but was caught in action. The consequences of their actions were not to kind. Cleaning the whole music block was not going to be an easy task. The cleaning ran into the late afternoon. When they were finally finished they all headed home. As snow tells it, his friend’s were first they went one by one as they were dropped off at their homes. The first father came home, after listening to what had happen, he said to his son,” I send you to school for an education not to get in trouble’s.” then he took off his belt and redressed his son for his wrong doing. The second father came home and when he learned about what had happened he told his son,” If I ever get a report like this again its going to be worse.” I could not imagine what would be worse than thrashing his son, slamming his son on the ground and kicking him. It was Alex’s turn as he was now terrified talking to himself “I’m dead I’m dead I’m dead I...
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...• Should adults intervene in child conflicts (between peers and/or siblings)? I think that adults should not intervene in child conflicts if there is no harm done. Children need to be able to stand up for themselves and learn how to resolve certain situations on their own. Sibling relations provide an important context for the development of children understandings of their social, emotional and cognitive stages. In particular, the understanding is revealed during episodes of teasing, pretend play, conflict resolution, teaching, and through their use of emotional and mental language during conversations which do not cause potential harm. However, if the child’s conflicts get out of hand I believe that it is right for the adult to step in and intervene in the child’s conflicts to resolve the issue so no one gets hurt. • Let's have a debate on the topic of spanking. Were you spanked as a child? Would you spank your own children? Why or why not? When I was younger I was spanked. I believe that spanking could be a good/bad way to discipline child/children. I am not sure if I would spank my children. I think that spanking a child can be effective to them as they would know right from wrong. I consider spanking a child younger than three or a child with a disability is wrong because it could affect their development and also it is not affective as they do not know the reason to why they were spanked. Also in consideration of spanking, spanking a child with force can cause pain and...
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...Sevak Boghossian BCOM 275 May 18, 2014 Corporal Punishment Corporal Punishment Corporal punishment is the inflicting of pain due to disciplinary reasons. Even though it shows discipline, corporal punishment of kids is bad because it can lead to legal troubles and it can cause health issues to the child and lead to the child having bad after effects. It should be banned and alternative ways should be used. Corporal punishment has many pros and cons. Corporal punishment has reasons why it can be good, one reason why corporal punishment can be good it that it can teach morals and values to the children. It can teach the child what is wrong at what is right. It is faster effective way where the child learns its lesson. Corporal punishment also shows power and it puts fear inside of the child. Besides having pros, corporal punishment has many cons. By using this method, many children can end having mental illnesses and go through depression. “Among adults, 2 to 7 percent of cases of mental disorders — including major depression, anxiety disorder and paranoia — are attributable to physical punishment that occurred during childhood, the researchers said” (MyHealthNewsDaily). Physical abuse on a child is very bad, by using force the child can go through many emotional and physical things that sometimes might take many years for them to get back to normal. It puts them in a position where they develop strange methods of hurting themselves more, for...
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...child-staff ratio must be maintained. Records Centers and homes must keep accurate records such as children's attendance, immunizations, and emergency phone numbers. A record of monthly fire drills practiced with safe evacuation of children must also be maintained. A safe sleep policy must be developed and shared with parents if children younger than 12 months are in care. Discipline Each program must have a written policy on discipline, must discuss it with parents, and must give parents a copy when the child is enrolled. Changes in the discipline policy must be shared with parents in writing before going into effect. Corporal punishment (spanking, slapping, or other physical discipline) is prohibited in all centers and family child care homes. Religious-sponsored programs which notify the Division of Child Development and Early Education that corporal punishment is part of their religious training are exempt from that part of the law. Parental Rights Parents have the right to enter a family child care home or center at any time while their child is present. Parents have the right to see the license displayed in a prominent place. Parents have the right to know how their child will be disciplined. The laws and rules are developed to establish minimum requirements. Most parents would like more than minimum care. Child care resource and referral agencies can provide help in choosing quality care. Check the telephone directory or talk with a child care provider to see if there...
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...In “Why Do We Teach Girls That It’s Cute to Be Scared,” the claim is relatively explicit: we are teaching girls that they should be scared and require help, and that this is not okay. The claim is not absolute, because the author admits that certain parents are outliers and actually encourage their daughters to engage in risky and dangerous behavior, rather than just their sons. The author is making this claim because several studies have found that parents are more likely to tell their daughters to be careful, to encourage their sons to take risks, and to assist their daughters when they do engage in risky/dangerous behavior. In Caroline Paul’s opinion article, nearly every paragraph consists of some form of evidence to support her claim, whether it be in the form of research, anecdotes, or examples. Her evidence is far more believable when it comes in the form of research published in noteworthy journals, or relevant examples. However, Paul’s evidence in the form of anecdotes seems random and misplaced. She tries to tie in her own personal story, but then admits that she and her family are examples of outliers. Essentially, she is providing evidence against the point she’s trying to make; that there actually are girls out there who are not taught to be afraid or dependent. Caroline Paul references two prominent journals, The Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology and The Journal of Pediatric Psychology. The first scientific journal stated that parents warned their...
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...Have you ever thought how families feel when their kids are taken away from them? Many families have lost their children because they have been taken away to fight and wars against their will. I believe that child soldiers shouldn’t go to jail for their actions during war. Many people may not think the same way as me, but i have my reasons. They shouldn’t go to jail because some of the children think that it is going be a great place to live and stay there, but then other times you are going start getting treated bad. Many times you might get sent to jail for something you didn’t want to do, like drink alcohol, do drugs, etc. In The article Child Soldiers: victims or perpetrators “More often than not children have no say in whether they enlist or not and once recruited the children become brainwashed through the use of drugs and alcohol. The drugs and alcohol make the children become more compliant enabling them to commit atrocities which they never would have before.” They should not be getting hurt for crimes. In the article Child Soldiers: victims or perpetrators I found that “ Personally, I believe child soldiers should not be prosecuted for their crimes.” If they do something wrong they shouldn’t be getting hurt or anything. Many new kids that join Child Soldier may not know what is going on. If they tell them and some kids are scared and not put attention and get in trouble and end up getting hurt is really bad because it’s not their fault. Why are they getting hurt...
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...In most schools if you act out there will be some form of punishment. Is suspension the correct form of punishment or, is there a better way? If a student gets into a fight or flips over a table, odds are they will be sentenced to suspension. Meaning they must stay out of school for a certain amount of time. Although schools can’t allow children that cause issues in school, suspension is not the way to stop this behavior because, children may see suspension as a form of reward, students will not be able to give an accurate description of what happened, students will not see what they did wrong but obsess over what the other student did to them. School suspension doesn’t work because, children may see suspension as a form of reward. If children’s parents don’t punish them for what they did at school, the suspension just feels like a break. Parents of children who act out repeatedly usually want to be seen as someone the child can be friends with. Children of such parents are usually more hostile towards their parents, peers, and authority. Not all children who are parented this way turn out to be hostile but, suspension is still not the way to punish them....
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...The worst and painful discipline ever is spanking, but it is one also of the most debatable discipline methods and one of the oldest disciplinary actions throughout many decades. Spanking is a method of punishment in which an adult inflicts pain upon a child in response to their unsatisfactory behavior. At times, children forget to practice good behavior skills or they disobey their parent’s rules and commands, which results in being disciplined. As a frustrated parent continues to repeat commands and try’s to reason with the child it increases their frustration levels quite often. Most parents try their best to teach their child to understand what acceptable behavior is and what is unacceptable. When children are constantly disobedient, acting out at school or in public places, it makes the parent look bad and feel bad. At times, an anxious child likes to stick things in his or her pockets that do not belong to him or her or the child do not like to share things, when the time is appropriate. When out of control a child tends to talk back often trying to push the parent’s limits. After being loud, out of control and defiant continuously after being warned about a problem or punished in a less severe way repeatedly before actually being spanked, If the child still does not want to be obedient after the necessary steps have been taken then they should receive a more severe discipline such as a spanking. The process of spanking is a very agonizing and tormenting process. The...
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...Punishments can be divided into many different categories but in this study 2 different types of child punishment were used and researched, corporal punishment or punitive discipline known to many as spanking, inductive punishment. Child disciplinary practices are a necessary part of child rearing. They involve training and helping children to develop judgment, a sense of boundaries, self-control, self-sufficiency, and a positive social conduct. For the purposes of this study, two classifications of child disciplinary practices were explored: power-assertive and punitive discipline, and inductive discipline. Inductive discipline (e.g. reasoning) is believed to help children to develop empathic skills, appealing to the child's sense of reason and fairness. Conversely, punitive discipline (e.g. psychological aggression, corporal punishment) is believed to foster anger and unwillingness to comply, besides providing a model of aggression. Participants were children and adolescents from six public schools belonging to the catchment area of the primary care unit of the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Brazil, assessed between October of 2010 and March of 2011. An association was observed between the higher frequencies of power-assertive and punitive discipline and bullying perpetration in children and adolescents. All maternal power-assertive and punitive disciplines were overall statistically associated with bullying behavior by their children, as well as most of the paternal...
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...crime, the physical punishment against children. Although the physical punishment is illegal in countries such as Sweden, it is common practice others such as in America. According to a nationally representative survey in 2010, 5 percent of men, and 64 percent of women agreed that a child needs a “good hard spanking.” And there are 94 percent of parents have spanked their child by age three or four, and 50 percent still spanked even if the child was 13 years old. The survey also revealed that African-American and low-income parents were the most likely to use physical punishment. In my writing I will be focusing on the consequences of the violence against children: “Punishment refers to a decrease in the probability or likelihood or response following the presentation or removal of consequence.” (Kazdin, Alan E. Parent Management Training). Kazdin definition of punishment differs from the use of the term in everyday; Kazdin says; the focus of punishment now is retribution, retaliation, inflicting pain, or providing consequence that is undesired. The children usually move spontaneously, doing a lot of mistakes because of their little live experience. Therefor, the parents have to do a nicely punish some time to misbehave, which is to show their love and care, not the negative emotion. The adults have in mind that teaches children to be responsible for their behavior by serving the punishment. However, when adults teach children to behave to avoid punishment, children sometimes...
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...Reflect on how historical, political and ideological influence have had an impact on how ‘childhood has evolved throughout history. Section 2. “Childhood – The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth.” (www.thedevilsdictionary.com) Over the last 200 years childhood has change radically. I look at my own children and wonder how they would have survived the suffering and distress children in the early 19th century endured in fact, I wondered if I would have. Child labour was a common practice in the early part of the 19th century, children worked long hours in factories and because they were small they often had the most dangerous jobs, like climbing into jammed machines or scrambling up narrow factory chimneys. Children as young as 6 could be working 10 – 14 hour days. The industrial revolution saw many hundreds of people leave the country side in search of paid work in the towns and cities. This influx of people, more people than jobs available, created ‘slum type’ areas full of disease crime and poverty. In desperation parents sent their children to work or quite simply abandoned the child as she was too expensive to keep. Robert Owen, a wealthy mill owner strived to improve the lives of poor children. Owen refused to employ children in his New Lanark mill and offered them an education instead, so determined in his ideals, he took his views to parliament and managed to convince MPs that children employed in factories...
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...CORPORAL PUNISHMENT RESEARCH STUDY CHAPTER 4: DATA ANALYSIS, INTERPRETATION AND PRESENTATION OF FINDINGS 4.1 INTRODUCTION To interpret something is to give it a meaning., Ttherefore, data analysis is the act of organising and reducing the data to a more manageable and interpretable form (Krüger, De Vos, Fouché & Venter, and 2005: 218). To put it more concisely, data analysis is the organisationing of raw data into more concise and intelligible data which can later be analysed (Bless & Kathuria, 2000: 1). The researcher used both the quantitative and qualitative data analysis to interpret the findings. The researcher administered the interviews to 10 learners, 4 parents, 4 teachers and 2 education officers and also the questionnaires were purposively distributed questionnaires to 16 parents, 14 education officers and 20 teachers from the two selected schools. Upon the completion of Once the interviews and results from the questionnaires, were completed, the researchers sat down to review, analyse and sort the crude data. and the same information from the questionnaires was grouped and presented in the form of numbers and later changed into percentage. The data from both qualitative interviews and questionnaires was sorted, arranged, re-arranged and reduced to manageable categories through coding that gave rise to appropriate themes. Key themes, from the corroborated qualitative and quantitative data were identified. The themes were supported by the qualitataive...
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...“Downfalls of Spanking your Children” Parents who spank their children to get the child to listen or cooperate are not taking the appropriate action of disciplining their child. The end results will lead to an angry child. Three negative results from spanking your child as a form of discipline are; the child might feel unwanted or not loved by parent, and will become violent towards other children or adult peers, the child might feel angry and confused with parent, and might not fully understand his/ or hers behavior, which results to behavior being repeated. Violent behavior is performed by a child in situations where the child cannot communicate his/ or her point. In most cases, the behavior is learned from a parent or peer spanking the child to communicate that child has done something “bad”, or “wrong”. In most cases, the child usually gets spanked from the pettiest act to the most serve act of rebellion because parent usually gets frustrated or impatient with child and spanks the child to get them to listen. This act from the parent only results to child feeling unwanted or not loved by parents. The child only acts out to get attention from parent in most cases. In the contrary, there are children that are brought up getting lots of attention from parents and peers. In other words the child is spoiled. So, the minute the child does not receive this attention from someone, he/ or she may act out becoming disruptive and defiant. This can affect a child in ways that...
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...policies and school’s act having been introduced and implemented in the new democratic dispensation in South African post 1994, the education sector of South Africa has taken a major shift away from the apartheid education system. Many teachers start off teaching learners through formal learning and when learners’ battle or struggle, corporal punishment is used by teachers. Children should be treated as children not as adults. Mkhize (2000) maintains that “primary learning for young children in school comes not through direct teaching, but with social and intellectual interactions both with the teachers and the children’s social allies”. For example, during the times when I was still in primary school, the grade 6 teacher conducted direct teaching to learners and if they fail to understand, corporal punishment was an order of the day One major noticeable shift was that of banning or abolishing corporal punishment in schools. According to chapter 2 of Act no: 84 of 1996 South African School’s act, in the subsection that speaks to “prohibition of corporal punishment in school clause 10.1 stipulates clearly that “no person may administer corporal punishment at school to a learner”. Clause 10.2 further state that “any person who...
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...Albert Bendura performed the Bodo Doll experiment in 1961 but it is still debated even after five decades with regards to its findings. Further its relevance is critically analysed in the wake of the contemporary debates related to increasing incidence of child violence along with the underlying role of media. It was a breakthrough research of the time as at the time genetics was assumed to be the major factor which was responsible for the underlying behaviour of children. However this experiment laid the foundation of social learning theory which advocates humans as learning from their social environment. Bendura is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of this line of thinking. In this regard, it is first to analyse the Bodo Doll experiment in detail and critically analyse the conclusions derived. Bodo doll is a five feet tall toy which is inflatable and tends to spring back when hit back. Even though Bendura wanted to comment on adult role behaviour and modelling but he still chose children as the test subjects. Children often lack the social conditioning with the norms of society and thus are relatively at more liberty which makes it easy to record reliable and valid outputs. There were four major aims which Bendura wanted to prove using his experimentation. Firstly, he wanted to demonstrate that even in the absence of the adult, the children would get influenced on being exposed to aggressive adult behaviour and thus start behaving in a similar manner. Secondly, he wanted...
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