Punishment

When reading the punishment part of our textbook I started to really think. I was raised in a household where spanking was only necessary when we REALLY did not listen. I understand why physical punishment is bad, but I also realize that I did not turn out to be a bad result from spanking. I also was not spanked often, and it was on a rare occasion when it happened. I don’t know what I will do for my future children as that is many, many years away.  

We were never placed in time-out as children. We would be excused to go up to our room or we would relocate up there on our own but never forced to sit on the steps. I know a family I nanny for still enforced the time-out rule through their youngest child’s years of elementary school. Their youngest child has ADD, and there are very few disciplines that would work to punish the child and have him realize what he did wrong. I think back to watching super nanny on TV when I see children being placed in timeout. I also thought it was interesting how the book talked about induction. We would always be talked to after a punishment and we settled down to work through the issue so another issue wouldn’t blow up again. I know punishment in schools is becoming a problem, and some school districts are having empty threats for their students. I think it’s important to have consistent punishments so students and children know they misbehaved that a punishment is coming.