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The tricky business of punishment for parents, How to punish childBY: Ms Royce | Category: Family | Post Date: 2008-06-25
Punishment is to cause suffering, pain, or loss that serves as retribution. Punishment is a form of chastisement, correction, discipline or penalty. When we hear the word punishment, most people think of disciplinary procedures used by parents, teachers, and other authority figures. But punishment is much more than parents giving a child a time-out for misbehaving or teachers giving demerits. Any process that adds or takes away something and causes the behavior to decrease is punishment. Example: If parents ignores all the A's on their child's report card and ask repeated questions about the B's and C's, they may unintentionally punish and weaken the likelihood of future A's. As you can see, punishment is a tricky business. If one were to study psychology, they would learn that punishment can have a negative or positive effect on a child. You can then use that knowledge to become a better parent. Examples of punishment uses are given when parents must stop their children from running into the street and their teenagers from drinking and driving. Teachers must stop disruptive students in the classroom and bullies on the playground. Dangerous criminals must be stopped and possibly removed from society. There is an obvious need for punishment. But it can be problematic. To be effective, punishment should be immediate and consistent. However, in the real world, this is extremely hard to do. To make matters worse, when punishment is not immediate, during the delay, the undesirable behavior is likely to be reinforced, which unintentionally places it on a partial schedule of reinforcement. Sadly, this makes the undesirable behavior even more resistant to extinction. Perhaps most important, even if punishment immediately follows the misbehavior, the recipient may learn what not to do but not learn what he or she should do. Imagine trying to teach a child the word dog by only saying "NO !" each time the child said "dog" when it was inappropriate. The child (and you) would soon become very frustrated. It is much more efficient to teach the child by giving him or her clear examples of correct behavior, such as showing a child pictures of dogs and saying dog after each photo. Punishment has other serious side effects such as increased aggression, passive aggressiveness, avoidance behavior, modeling, temporary suppression, and learned helplessness. The best method seems to be a combination of the major principals. Reinforce appropriate behavior and extinguish inappropriate behavior and save punishment for the most extreme cases (such as a 2 year old running into the street). Article Source: http://www.saching.com About Author / Additional Info: My name is Royce and I love to write. Especially on topics that are of help. I would like the opportunity to network with you. I don't claim to be an internet guru, I just try many things after I do my due-diligence. I am focused on building my classifieds website. For a mere $5.95 you can place your ad and upload a photo. We also have 468x60 banner space available for $29.95/mo. Come to Royce Classified Ads Site at: http://www.royceclassifiedads.com Additional Articles: * Learn how to use the power that you have. * The Devil's joke - Do you believe in Ghosts * Health benefits of fish oil: Good for Heart, Hair, Brain & Arthritis * Intelligent Love * Manipulation in Love Does this article violate or infringe on your copyright ? It is a violation of our terms for authors to submit content which they did not write and claim it as their own. If this article infringes on your copyrights, then use our Contact us form with the detailed proof of infringement along with the offending article's title, URL and writer name. If you do not hear back from us then contact us again in another 10 days. Thank you. Comments on this article: (0 comments so far) * Additional comments are now closed for this article *
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