Many people use punishment to teach the difference between right and wrong to kids. Many think punishment is necessary to help children learn the distinction between right and wrong. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
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Firm discipline is necessary part of teaching children. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
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Nowadays, parents are no longer commanders in the family, but children are. It has become increasingly evident that punishment is missing as a necessary part of teaching children to learn right from wrong. This can be seen in the way parents obey their children, which is as illogical as ''the tail wagging the dog'' when the opposite should be true.
It does not have to be that way because discipline is the natural order of things which obliges children to be in obdience. Strict discipline may represent a symbol of caring to a child. More often than not, the method of punishments works as well as that of rewards. So, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. Giving advice while putting a child on the right path is the right thing for any parent to do. Anyway, the whole game is about love, considering that kissing parents and scolding parents are love just the same.
Following this old logic, it behooves parents to exercise strict discipline in the family. For instance, it is a common belief that filial piety is often the fruit of the practice of strict discipline during childhood. Out of strict discipline come good sons and daughter. Unfortunately, most children spoiled by their parents today are likely to spoil their own children tomorrow. In fact, besides school teachers, fathers and mothers have decisive influence on their offsprings' behaviors when it comes to telling right from wrong. Doubtlessly, all children follow good examples at home-- seeing, hearing, imitating, even learning to smile from their parents.
Allowing children to dominate their parents is similar to ''putting the cart before the horse,'' so to speak. The conventional wisdom--spare the rod and spoil the child--must be applied when teaching children to judge right from wrong. Excessive spoiling can therefore ruin both children and parents alike, meaning in the absence of necessary family discipline, chances are that modern people's first part of life would be ruined by their parents and the second part by their children.