Module 5: Why Punishing a Child Is Not an Effective Way of Discipline

Module 5: For or Against Punishment
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Why Punishing a Child Is Not an Effective Way of Discipline
Punishing a child is not an effective way of discipline; children will not have necessary learning to control their behavior when punished. Instead, punishment hardens children. Most parents assume that the effective way of discipline a child is through physical punishment or withholding rewards like not watching television if the child does o finishes his homework. Some parents give penalties like if a child breaks a window, he will pay with his allowance. All these forms of punishment are not appropriate discipline methods (Dobson, 2014). For example in cases where parent threatens her teenage daughter that if she does not clean her room, she will not receive any allowance for the week. In this case, reward or punishment only teaches the child to be good when we are looking, meaning that the child can on...