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Chayaporn Pink Laowattanachai

Ms. Orana Meenongwha

English 10/10:06

May 25, 2017

Psychological Effects of Child Punishment

Introduction

Have you experienced physical punishment as a child? Around the world, there are many

people as a billion children who are undergoing corporal punishment. UNICEF reported 3 in 10

adults around the world believe the corporal punishment is essential to instruct children to bring

up confident and balanced responsible citizens in the future. When children make culpability or

turn down the rules, parents respond that they have been taught them by society. They use

physical punishment. Unfortunately, the kids die or injure. For example, according to NDTV

(2017), the teacher in school in united kingdom locked up the student who was a nine year old

boy in the cupboard about four hours. They did that just because he was founded caked in mud.

His mother was shocked by what happening so she complained to Middlesbrough's Sunnyside

Academy School and her son got a bad experience and affect his psychological. Another

example, Lydia Schatz of Paradise, Calif who was seven years old was whipped by rubber

tubing in homeschooling .She mispronounce a word. Finally, her sister took her to hospital to be

hospitalized and then, she died because many parts of body tissue were damaged (James, 2011).

Not only children get injury from corporal punishment but also a significant impact is they get

the psychological health later in life. The excessive message is one of physical punishment.

There is telling again and again to children that they are valueless, worthless, unloving or should
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not born to be their parents kids. These directly affect to children psychological ferver

(Desmond Ng, 2016). Instance, each week, family savagery kills a woman and one in four

children observers family violence, Kids are bullied, one in five hurts from mental illness. More

than thousands of kids observe this influence so the base of our society are children who

understand that it is fine to be violent. The main reason is their parents punish violent toward

them. The impacts of this attitude are vast (Poulsen, 2015). Although, Physical punishment has

sole positive result and there is a short-term advantage which is sudden yielding, the

disadvantages of it are a range of neurological, physical behavior, cognitive, feeling,

communication success and also can get early sexual event, depression (Gersho E, 2002). This

research paper aim to study psychological effects of child punishment and the greatest way to

punish the children.

Common Punishment that Parents Use

Punishment is suffering, loss, or hardship imposed in response to a crime or offense.

Common punishment that parents use to punish their children including hitting, blaming, spank,

smack, whip. A research for surveying 11,600 adults displayed 74% of all, their parents

smothered, smashed or booted and virtually half of all more than one time they were punished

by doing not realize their mistakes. Unexpectedly, children do not unavoidably convict the

hitting and agree it is a parental authority (Elliman, Lynch, 2000). These kinds of punishments

aim to discipline children in terms of behaviors and responsibilities. However, if these

punishments are used wrongly, they will impact to children who were punished. In England,

researchers found 35% in a example children of normally parents had gotten awful corporeal

punishment which mean using tools to punish or regular use it for long time. View of parents are

biased because when they were young, they also got this experience. The sample cases are
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Nelma Ople who was 27 years old and she shared her experience about punishment when she

was 7 years old but she still recently in her memory. In grade 1, she was hit because her teacher

called her to answer a division question on the board. Five minutes later, she was still stand in

front of the board and hold her Mathematics book. She was anxious because she does not know

the solution.Just second, teacher took the book that I held and hit it to the back and smacked her

head on the board (NEWSINFO, 2012). Punishment is cause discipline. Results of it assist kids

study to conduct their behaviours so they do not show their concepts whatever it is right or

wrong because children afraid to punish. For example, they are upright but in fact they do not

believe it is wrong to be cheating. However, they do right thing because they are frightened to

catch out. The reason of punishment is to block children to do something that you do not want

them to do and you choose punish them by injuring physique or troublesome procedures (Telep,

2009). For instance, a mother who abuse her son who was old 10 years old until he died because

of stealing 25 cents. In 2015, a Gutu man is reported to have tortured until his four years old to

die because of soiling himself. In 2016, a Bikita man is reported to have smacked his son who

was thirteen years old to die because he farted (Marunda, 2016). However, physical punishment

also affect psychological part which is long term impacts.

Psychological Effects

The impacts of corporal punishment have more influence on children than people

think ,and something that you cannot be unexpected what thing will happen with children. The

impact affects indirectly children's psychology. The psychology is more severe than physical

injury. If parents or teachers punish kids inappropriately, the drawback outcomes of physical

punishment are aggression of children, social rebellious, cognitive operation including when
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they are adult, and this emotion will be increased that can affect with their kids or couples. There

are a decreased relationship quality with people. Moreover, children can get stress from fear of

hitting and can affect the functions and development of brain of children, derangement natural

and consequences affect their life long and permanent abnormalities because in early school age,

children will be very sensitive and serious of brain evolution because the brain evolves faster

than other organ. For example, in Western African, children in school are severely punished

which affect negative ways of executive functioning which is the part of brain function for

example, weak impulse control can make kids act inappropriate. Weak emotional control can

make kids have problem with sociability. Weak work memory can affect the remembering things

morn than children in school which use gentle discipline (Gersho E. 2002). In addition,

punishment also affect mental health problems such as depression, bipolar disorder, personality

disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. In conclusion,

though most of children agree with the parental punishment in that time, kids did not learn or

understand mistakes or the good behaviours. The punishment will influence in their mind

including decrease moral internalisations, conscience, and empathy. If guardian still use physical

punishment, their children will be more resistant and aggressive. In severely case, the children

can escape out of house, degenerate. They will bring their subconscious to do poor unexpected

situations which can affect innocent people such as criminal and corporal punishment are passed

on from one generation to the next (McCord, Joan, 1995). It can be seen that the physical

punishment have long term negative results and these will be remain in all childrens lives and

pass on to their family. Therefore, guardian should punish or do some methods which right and

properly procedures with children before it is too late.

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The Better Ways to Punish Children

There are many effective methods that parents can use to solve their childrens misbehaviors.

First, parents have to regulate their own emotions. Parents are the role of children so parents do

not act bad behavior and wait until they clam down. Therefore, children will not be moody with

parents mood and the situation will be increase worse. Second, empathize with feelings, there is

opportunity to join with childrens feeling. If they feel nervous, parents do not try to find the

reason from them but just care so when they clam down, they will open their mind to your

advice. Third, parents should give the support. Children have to learn scaffolding which are the

basic skill of the activity and behavior. They will slowly to take understanding ,so parents will

not mad but support the good activity. Thus, children will get encourage to do something from

parents. Fourth, connect before correct, when parents teach or stimulate children, they should

connect childrens feeling with action which can deepen communication in their emotion such as

eye contact, put parents hand to children shoulder, pick them up or hug them. Thus, children

will feel their parents take care them and can make them feel better. Fifth, parent should set the

limit. The rules still remain to rule the children but sometimes rules could have flexible. Parents

can give choice to their children what can do in their want. However, parents have to pick

choices carefully because children will pick one, parents need to honor to their children. For

example, Do you want to say sorry or do you want to read a book with me?. Therefore,

children will feel more clam and easy get clam. Sixth, teaching for fixing children's behavior,

there is teaching children what thing they should do when they did wrong thing, for example

children spill the milk so they should clean up by using the towel or tissue paper. Therefore,

when they grow up, they can realize which methods they can do. Parents should to be the model

fixing and apologizing. Thus, when children are adults, they will have the correct and right
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methods for living happily with other people. Seventh, parents should remember that

misbehavior is an expression. When children did something, they will have reasons. If parents

do not agree with them, you should solve the problem by base on underlying and parents can get

rid of misbehavior. On the other hand, if children are misguided, they will be upset inside or

more chance to cry alone. Eighth, parents just say yes instead of no in first word of their demand

because if parents say request with loving, virtually children will follow and respond parents

request because of kind of spirit of parents. Ninth, parents should connect with their children

everyday by letting children tell something in their mind and let they shout or cry. The result is

100 percents that children will feel good and it is the most significant part in their development.

Finally, parents should feel good with themselves before they give good feeling to their children

(Nelsen, 2016). In conclusion, all of strategies could be the best ways of punishment children

and it does not involve physical kids. On the other hand, it is directly involve with psychological

of children.

Conclusion

In conclusion, physical punishment is punishment that happen in childrens physic such as

hitting and smacking on parts of childrens body. Millions of children get physical punishment

from their parents and teachers. They punish children by using physical punishment to discipline

them to have good behavior and responsibilities. However, using the method is not the effective

ways to punish the children. Many studies and news reported that parents use corporal

punishment with their children because parentss parents also use this procedure to punish them,

so they tend to use this method with their children. The consequence of corporal punishment is

that children are afraid of expressing their ideas or concepts because if they are wrong, they

could be punished. If parents still use physical punishment, their children will be more
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resistance, and can pass on to next generation. In addition, the impacts of corporal punishment

affect indirectly to children such as aggression, social rebellious, cognitive operation These

symptoms will increase when children become adults. However, there are great methods to teach

good behavior to children. For example, parents should be calm down and try to understand their

childrens feeling. Parent should support children to take part in good activities ,so children get

encouraged to do something or give the choices for children. All of the strategies could be the

best way to punishment the children. Parents can use these to teach their children to be the good

adults in the future.

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Appendix