Mead And Rhoda Metraux Discipline

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Discipline can be a very controversial topic that can raise many questions. According to Margaret Mead and Rhoda Metraux in “Discipline—To What End?” “In a society in which many people are socially mobile and may live as adults in a social or cultural environment very different from the one in which they grew up, old forms of discipline may be wholly unsuited to new situations.” What they mean is that the discipline parents used on their children may not be the same discipline that those children should use on their own kids. In many situations, I agree that the discipline used today by parents is different from how they were disciplined in certain situations. But on the other hand, I also believe that some techniques are very similar, if not the same. Whenever I disobeyed the rules as a little kid my grandparents usually did the disciplining. If I were to call another kid a name or talk back to my mom I would get a spank on the bottom and put in the corner. I can still recall multiple times that I stood in the corner with my nose pressed up against the wall not moving or saying a single word. As I got older my mother did more and more of the disciplining herself. I found myself sitting in …show more content…

Such as, grounding me or taking one of my favorite items away for a certain period of time. I feel like this type of discipline has carried on throughout my life. My mother would ground me for weeks at a time, depending on the severity of my behavior, or I wouldn’t be able to watch T.V. for multiple days. As I got older it seemed like this form of discipline was more suitable for my age. I was too old to sit in a time out so instead my phone would be taken away. In these instances it occurs that the form of discipline are almost the same. I believe the old form of discipline was more than suitable to be used in these new

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