Cutorial Review- Spanking/Corporal Punishment by Sydney McCoy

sydneymccoy1 — 2024-11-01 12:56:51 UTC

In this article, the author begins the introduction by explaining corporal punishment. The author then discusses a study conducted by researchers at Idaho State University and describes how the outcome of the spank condition and the no-spank condition did not differ and that spanking is not necessary. The author then transitions to the long-term goals of parents who spank their children, it shows that spanking is no better than a less harsh punishment to achieve their long-term goal for the child. The author then talks about how corporal punishment may have an effect on the child's behavior and that they may start to act aggressive, and anti-social. The author starts to explain the unintended effects of corporal punishment, like the child may not fully develop because of getting spanked, that there are many negative effects of spanking, and that it does more harm than good. The author then goes on to explain the effects of spanking children who are in school and how many states have banned corporal punishments in schools. The author shows the negative and positive effects of corporal punishments in statistics an example of one is aggression (27/27). The author concluded that corporal punishment is no better than other methods of gaining immediate or long-term compliance, that corporal is not predictive of any intended positive outcomes for children and is very predictive of a range of negative unintended consequences like physical injury.

Long term effect

sydneymccoy1 — 2024-11-04 02:13:54 UTC

The author starts off the article by giving us a glimpse of what the topic of the article is going to be. The author then gives us a quote from a professor from Harvard University stating " We know that spanking is not effective and can be harmful for children's development and increases the chance of mental health issues. With these new findings, we also know it can have potential impact on brain development, changing biology, and leading to lasting consequences." They then go into a study called "Corporal Punishment and Elevated Response to Threat in Children" and tell us how this study found that children that have been spanked have higher response levels in environments of threat than kids who have not been spanked, and saying that spanking can altar children's brain function in similar ways of maltreatment. The author then gives us more detail of the study and tells us how children who were spanked had similar brain responses to more threatening experiences like sexual abuse, and that they had higher responses to things that most people would consider non-threatening. The next topic on the article starts off with a quote that says "Preschool aged children - and even adults- [ who have been spanked] are more likely to develop anxiety or depression disorders or have more difficulties engaging positively in schools and skills of regulation, which we know are necessary to be successful in educational settings." The author then goes to tell us how spanking in some schools is still common then tells three ways to completely stop spanking.

sydneymccoy1 — 2024-11-04 03:55:01 UTC

In this article the author firstly talks about inappropriate discipline methods like physically hitting a child, yelling or belittling a child, humiliating them, depriving them of food or drinks, etc. They then go on to give us tips of how to positively correct a child's behavior, including how to calm yourself down. The author then goes into how someone might fail to report something that they may have seen and how to go about reporting that.

sydneymccoy1 — 2024-11-04 04:13:28 UTC

The author starts off the article by telling us how physical discipline does not improve a child's behavior, and only teaches the child not to do the bad behavior in front of their parents. They also tell us that hitting a child does not help at all and gives them emotional, behavioral, and academic problems over time. They then go on to tell us some reasons why parents spank their children, like the parent may not know another way to discipline the child, because that was the way that they were disciplined too. They then give us alternatives for discipline like redirecting the child's attention so that do not act out.

https://aifs.gov.au/resources/short-articles/what-does-evidence-tell-us-about-physical-punishment-children

sydneymccoy1 — 2024-11-04 04:26:23 UTC

In this article, the author starts off the topic by giving us the definition of what physical punishment is. They then go on to tell us about how widely physical punishment is used by giving us some percentages. They move on to tell us how physical punishment effects a child, like how it effect a child's cognitive abilities, their brain development, and their behavior. They go more in depth about the long term effects by saying how in the future they might become more aggressive, and that physical punishment can lead to abuse.

My opinion

sydneymccoy1 — 2024-11-04 04:33:26 UTC

My final thoughts on corporal punishment, and what I have learned from these articles is that corporal punishment is not a good option in any way. I have learned that spanking children can effect their brain development. Spanking is not better than any other discipline form. Corporal punishment can also cause a rift in the parent-child relationship, and also can lead to abuse. Corporal punishment should not be okay to use in school either, because it is not helping the child learn at all and in my opinion is taking away from the child's learning time. Everything that I have learned from these five articles is that their are so much better ways to discipline a child and that their is no reason a person should resort to physical discipline to teach a child a lesson.