Teaching children about what is right and wrong is crucial which some individuals think punishment could be significantly helpful measure in order to teach juveniles as to recognizing either good and bad deeds. I do agree with the necessity of punishing the youth so that they could be aware of how behave themselves, however, I strongly disagree with any kind of physical punishment.
Parents shoulder a huge responsibility for upbringing a child properly to be a responsible person in his or her society in the future. Knowing about what is right and what is wrong is the fundamental part of rearing children at an early age. Thus, sometimes a parent have to punish his or her children to show them the consequences of misbehaving. For instance, when two siblings are playing together and one of them spit on or bit the other one she or he has to be punished otherwise he or she will never understand that what he or she did was wrong. It worth noting that rewarding children when they follow rules is as paramount as punishment because it gives them a sense of worthiness and leads to experiencing the desirable feeling of doing something good. Furthermore, merely punishing children when they do something bad and giving them no reaction for their positive manners could leads to far-reaching consequences such as feeling unworthy or unlovable in their adulthood as well as lack of any punishment in an individual childhood may makes him a selfish irresponsible person. Hence the importance of punishment and rewarding children.
Nonetheless, it is critical how we are supposed to punish a child. I once again reaffirm my position that any form of physical punishment is by no means an acceptable treatment because not even is it not helpful for a child to learn anything good but also will have plenty of psychological problem in his or her parenthood life in the future such as aggression or trust issue. However, we can punish children through depriving them from their favorite activities for a short term or by not giving or buying what they like or postponing it until they understand and learn to behave appropriately.
In conclusion, even though punishment is necessary in the proses of growing children but sometimes we can avoid it and teach a child with rewarding instead.
