is it necessary to use violence to educate your kids?
By atwilson
@atwilson (540)
Indonesia
5 responses
@saaramin999 (32)
• India
26 Mar 12
No it is ok.Its not helpful.why for,,let them teach all the good thing over the world
lateer when they grow up,,they wii know the world and will know how to lead,If we teach them at their early we are going to spoil their childhood.so its NO
@tkonlinevn (6438)
• Vietnam
21 May 12
A little is good. Children should be known how is pain. But don't use it too much, of course. Just enough is always well.
@Polgara (31)
• Germany
25 Mar 12
A parent must discipline his child, that is for sure, but there are so many better ways to do it than violence. Violence is all together bad and wrong as a means of discipline. There is a huge difference between discipline and punishment, and violence has to do with punishment, in its worse shape.
Sometimes a parent simply must spank his kid, but spanking must not be violent, and must not harm the kid. For example, when my daughter was three years old, she was too small to understand that the traffic in the street is very dangerous. I had tried to explain to her why she simply must not run out to the street, but she could not understand it. Maybe a five or six years old kid can understand it, but a three yeard old kid can hardly even imagine the danger of traffic. So, my daughter had run out into the street several times, and I had to run after her to get her back before an auto hit her. Maybe twenty times I had to do it, and I explaned again and again why she must not do that any more, but no success. Then, once, I got so crazy from fear for her life, I ran after her to get her back from the street and then I spanked her. Maybe that was not the perfect way, but it worked. I didn't hurt her, I just spanked her, because I thought, it was better that I hit her on her back side than an auto to hit her. Never again did she run out to the street again. She finally realized that running out into the street can hurt :)
But violence is much more than just a spanking. If a parent spanks or beats his child in anger, then it is quite a different type of "discipline", or should I say, that represents a punishment, and not discipline. Talking to children, teaching them, showing them, treating them as human beings who are worthy just like we are, these are the best ways to discipline our kids. Sometimes we spank them (or not), but if we use any kind of violence to harm them and hurt them, that will make them traumatized, that will cause some bigger problems for them in their life. Moreover, a violent parent is always incapable and helpless, and even if a kid fears his violent parent, one day this parent will have no more authority in the eyes of the kid. The children of violent parents usually go the wrong way in their life, due to rebellion they inevitably must make, and that is definitely not good for them.