Curatorial Review-Spanking/Corporal Punishment by Summer Brinson

Short term effects on behavior

summerbrinson — 2025-04-09 12:40:54 UTC

This source in summary says spanking as a punishment is not recommended because along with the long term effects it can cause an increase in aggression and anger for young children.

Long term psychological effects

summerbrinson — 2025-04-09 12:54:12 UTC

From this resource I learned using spanking as a punishment on children can lead them to develop different brain responses, anxiety/depression, not engaging positively with others, and not developing all regulated skills.

More Long term psychological effects

summerbrinson — 2025-04-09 13:10:50 UTC

This resource discusses how we are seeing that spanking and similar forms of punishment on children are leading to long term effects like more aggression, children growing up to believe that this type of force is acceptable to use on others, mental health problems, etc. However, many adults still believe this to be a good and acceptable form of punishment even though it has also not been seen as very effective.

Other negative discipline approaches to avoid

summerbrinson — 2025-04-11 12:39:25 UTC

This resource discusses how there are many disciplines that parents should avoid like spanking, hitting, sarcasm, shaming or degrading and they should instead fine and practice more effective and less negatives disciplinary approaches.

The alternatives (positive discipline)

summerbrinson — 2025-04-11 12:48:27 UTC

In the part of this document titled "Ten Alternatives To Spanking By Destry Maycock" it discusses that there are many actions to take that are more effective/positive than spanking sush as giving choices,taking timeouts, getting someone else involved, teaching them what you expect, recognizing their positive behaviors, giving logical consequences, picking what thing in specific to focus on disciplining, setting limits, and by telling them what they can do instead of what they can't.

Conclusion Paragraph

summerbrinson — 2025-04-11 12:59:18 UTC

In conclusion, there are many negative effects of spanking and parents should practice other punishments. With just a little Google search you can see that many people have very strong feeling about spanking. While some people come up with excuses to why they should be able to spank their children it doesn't take much work to find many reasons to why spanking shouldn't be done onto children. One common excuse I see given to why spanking was used is that the "parents didn't know any better" but now we do now better there are many studies showing the horrible effects it can have on people and know we know many positive alternatives exist. I truly don't believe parents should use forces such as spanking to discipline their child and I believe it is obvious why but if it wasn't already then this research I did should show just why parents shouldn't spank their children.