Thursday, April 17, 2008
School's [Almost] Out For Sumerrrr! (9)
With summer approaching, I know everyone is getting extremely excited and maybe just a little bit antsy. I cannot believe that another year has flown by so quickly. Basically we have 25 days left (give or take a few). Yet, teachers still seem to find the time and place in that little book filled with last minute lesson plans to pile us up with assignment after assignment! Bringing forth that last bit of effort gets me every time. Hanging in there is the hardest part for me. I sit in my desk class after class, day after day, waiting until that 2:40 dismissal bell rings, just so I can mark off another countdown day in my agenda. I can already smell summer. Well, with the hot sun and the snowball stands opening up, it’s right at my fingers tips, I can almost grab it! I think it’s just a little more exciting for me, especially since the next year I walk through the front doors of East Ascension High School on that very first day, I will be entering as a SENIOR! The sooner these last few weeks past by, the sooner summertime rolls around and the sooner the class of 2009 can get in and get out. So patiently I remain sitting through every boring lecture, through every boring test, and through every other boring aspect about the classroom sitting, waiting for that last dismissal bell to ring and for the start of sweet summertime!
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To Spank or Not To Spank: That is the Question? (Unqualified Refutation)
Corporal punishment, according to Madison Kling, is the deliberate infliction of pain and suffering intended to change a person’s behavior or to punish them. In her definition, the word s pain and suffering, of course, add to the subjective subject discussed. Kling fells that corporal punishment is wrong because it causes physical harm to a child and produces a negative outcome. Unfortunately, I disagree. Spanking should be an option of punishment in the home, because it teaches children a lesson about misbehaving and spanking is the way God advises us to discipline our children.
Many pediatricians and psychologists have come out strongly against corporal punishment in the home. According to Kling, for instance, the Psychosocial Pediatrics Committee of the Canadian Pediatric Society feels that “spanking and other forms of physical punishment are associated with negative outcomes,” and they recommend that physicians [strongly] discourage disciplinary spanking and all other forms of punishment.” The parents’ decision of spanking or not spanking their children should be their choice. The negative outcomes will probably only come from children who are not used to being spanked. However, I am not saying you should spank your children so they can be used to it or take spanking them to the extreme. Other methods of punishment, like “Time Out,” in my opinion, are just teasers for some children. It simply takes about 10 to 15 minutes out of their play time. Corporal punishment should be used because children will not want to misbehave knowing what awaits them if they do.
Kling claims that corporal punishment is against the moral beliefs of the United States Constitution. But are we forgetting the most important person? Did God not create the people who made the Constitution? The “don’t spank” advocates always ignore what their creator has to say on the matter, or they are ignorant of it. They even place psychiatrists and psychologists on a higher pedestal instead of obeying the advice of God who wants us to do things his way. God says that for willful disobedience, corporal punishment is appropriate. He also says that parents who refuse to ever use this form of discipline “hate” their children. He does not mean this literally, but he feels that if parents do not discipline the children they do not care about what type of person they should become. “He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.” (Proverbs 13:24)
Children do not understand the importance of getting spanked because they don’t know any better. Whether a parent decides to use physical punishment or not, is again, their choice. But we should always keep in mind the ways of our creator and to always discipline our children. This is one way to keep our next generation out of major turmoil.
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