Please write 5 paragraphs to include an introduction, three supporting body paragraphs in which you state the reasons why you are for or against the statement above, and a conclusion. You can use the links provided, and you must quote at least two of the authors in your essay. REMEMBER TO CHOOSE ONE SIDE.
FEEL FREEE TO QUOTE TWO OF THE AUTHOR’S BELOW. YOU MAY TAKE THE QUOTES OUT AS YOU WISH. YOU ALSO HAVE THE OPTION OF LOOKING UP QUOTES ON THE INTERNET (I HAVE LINKS IN CASE YOU DO NOT WANT TO USE ANY OF THE INFORMATION I HAVE HERE).
Paragraph One–Thesis, Introduction
Paragraph Two–Reason #1 why you agree or disagree
Paragraph Three–Reason #2 why you agree or disagree
Paragraph Four–Reason #3 why you agree or disagree
Paragraph Five–Conclusion. Consider discussing alternatives to corporal punishment or warning people what will happen to kids if they are not given corporal punishment.
Information You Can Quote
Against Spanking
Krisha McCoy, MS
Discipline is a way of teaching children the restraint and values necessary to become competent and independent adults. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), an effective discipline system contains three vital elements:
·A learning environment characterized by positive, supportive parent-child relationships
·A strategy for teaching and reinforcing positive behaviors
·A strategy for decreasing and eliminating undesired behaviors
Rob Walters
The short answer is no. When your child misbehaves or acts in ways that are defiant, inappropriate, or even dangerous, you want to show him that this behavior is unacceptable and needs to change. Spanking may seem like a direct and effective way to do that, but it also delivers other messages you don’t want to be sent.
April Dryburgh
If you ask adults today whether or not they were spanked as a child, most will answer, yes (You and Your
Child; 2005). Some people, who believe in Corporal punishment as a way to discipline a child, may use this as an argument to say that it is okay to spank a child. However, spanking a child can be harmful; there are better and more effective ways to discipline a child. Spanking sends the wrong message to achild, it can lead to esteem and other problems, and it is not as effective as some alternative forms of discipline.
FOR SPANKING
Erica Goode
“The scientific case against the use of normative physical punishment is a leaky dike, not a solid edifice,” Dr. Baumrind said.
Dr. Baumrind, a psychologist known for her classic studies of authoritative, authoritarian and permissive styles of child-rearing, said she did not advocate spanking. But she argued that an occasional swat, when delivered in the context of good child-rearing, had not been shown to do any harm.
The studies cited by opponents of corporal punishment, Dr. Baumrind contended, often do not adequately distinguish the effects of spanking, as practiced by nonabusive parents, from the impact of severe physical punishment and abuse. Nor do they consider other factors that might account for problems later in life, like whether parents are rejecting or whether defiant or aggressive children might be more likely to be spanked in the first place.
Dr. Baumrind described findings from her own research, an analysis of data from a long-term study of more than 100 families, indicating that mild to moderate spanking had no detrimental effects when such confounding influences were separated out. When the parents who delivered severe punishment — for example, frequently spanking with a paddle or striking a child in the face — were removed from the analysis, Dr. Baumrind and her colleague, Dr. Elizabeth Owens, found that few harmful effects linked with spanking were left. And the few that remained could be explained by other aspects of the parent-child relationship.
Jamie Wilson
I’m an advocate of spanking children as punishment for major transgressions. That doesn’t mean I beat my kids, nor does it mean I’m a crazed authoritarian. Instead, I have realized over years of being a parent that there are just certain situations when you really, really need to clarify to a child that he or she has done something far beyond the pale. The best way to emphasize that is through corporal punishment — spanking.
Thomas George
Have you ever been out in a public place and noticed a child acting out of control and the parent did nothing? Do you ever wonder why? Well I think that I just might have come up with the answer: parents are afraid to discipline their children. Some states in our country right now are so strict on how to discipline children that parents are allowed only ONE open handed swat to a child’s behind. Any more than that is ABUSE. Now I know that there are a lot of you out there saying that hitting a child is not necessary and I don’t disagree, however everyone is entitled to an opinion. This is mine: sometimes, if a child does not learn from anything but a smack on the rear, it is necessary, and sometimes ONE just isn’t enough to let them know you mean business. Like I said though, more than once is abuse.
Corporal Punishment
Best Article on Not Spanking
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/151048/corporal_punishment_why_not_to_spank.html?cat=25
The Center for Effective Discipline
http://www.stophitting.com/
The Center for Effective Discipline (CED) is the headquarters for the National Coalition to Abolish Corporal Punishment in Schools and the End Physical Punishment of Children organizations. This site explores the negative affects of corporal punishment and offers alternative ideas for parents and teachers.
Empathic Parenting
http://www.empathicparenting.org/
This site provides parents with positive alternatives to hitting and articles about constructive ways to discipline and punish children.
The NO Spanking Page
http://www.neverhitachild.org/
The NO Spanking page asserts that hitting a child is always wrong and offers links to other sites that oppose corporal punishment; it also offers articles and research data.
Project NoSpank
http://www.nospank.org
Project NoSpank’s goal is to dispel the myth that “by making children feel worse we cause them to behave better.” This site has an extensive list of articles about corporal punishment and effective ways to avoid this sort of discipline.
The Singapore Solution
http://www.newfoundations.com/Clabaugh/CuttingEdge/Singapore.html
This article explores the prevalence of corporal punishment in Singapore, Nigeria, and other countries, particularly the practice of “flogging day” when students receive corporal punishment in front of the entire school for accumulated demerits.
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