Spank Your Child Research Paper

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As a child I was spanked up until I reached twelve years old. The question has been asked many times; Is it okay to spank your child? In my opinion it is okay to spank your child up to a certain point. The actions a child does needs to be met with the same actions on the parent’s side for the consequence. It is good to spank your child because it shows them what happens if you do something wrong. If a child does something wrong and does not receive any consequences for his or her actions the child will continue to make problems if not increase the level of misconduct. Parents should enforce consequences on a child’s misdemeanor to receive respect form that child as he or she grows up. The final outcome of your child is that he or she will gow …show more content…

I did not enjoy being spanked when I was a kid. Every time I did something wrong I knew what the consequence would, that consequence was me having to bend over something the arm of a chair or a barstool receive spanks. I learned very quickly that I did not enjoy the feeling of being spanked. As a child I was sometimes fearful of my dad because he was usually the one behind the paddle spanking me. My parents spanked me for a number of reason, but the one reason that mostly sticks out is that when I lied about something and they found out they would in return spank me for lying to them. I had a problem with lying when I was younger, I usually had the mindset that I could sneak around them and try to not have them find out what I did. My first experience of being spanked was when I was in church with my family. I have two older sisters that usually got me in trouble; or so I thought when I was a kid. While we were in church I was messing around with my sisters laughing, talking and drawing attention to myself. My parents told us kids as we sat in the pew to be quite and sit still, none of which I was doing. My parents gave me warning that if I kept up the behavior I would be spanked. I

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