Spanking Your Toddler. Does It Help?

Parenting is the most challenging job known, especially when it comes to disciplining your child. You may not have any trouble in agreeing to this statement, but your opinion about how to do this job perfectly may differ. Are you one among those parents who believe that spanking will help your child come out disciplined? Then, you are wrong!

A study published in Pediatrics, researchers at Tulane University strongly suggest that the effects of spanking children may contribute to many behavioural problems in the long run. In the study, those who were spanked more frequently at age 3 were much more likely to be aggressive by age 5.

BAD HABITS CAN BE STOPPED, WITH TODDLERS!

So, do you want to spoil your child by punishing them by spanking, only because they are smaller and less powerful than you? Since, children have less reasoning capacity and short memory; they may not be able to link your action with their deed. Go through these effects of hitting your child, which may help you for a rethinking.

Become aggressive: Physical punishments like hitting will only make your children more aggressive in their behaviour. Unless you take an effort to make them understand the wrong side of what they did, chances are more that they will repeat it later also. This time they may do it secretly fearing your response.

Less problem solving ability: Studies have proved that spanking your toddlers will affect their problem solving ability. When your child finds that you are not using any creative and effective ways to solve any problem, they will also uncover that physical or mental hurt is the fastest possible solution for a problem.

Less compassion: As a social being, we are supposed to live with compassion. But, one of the long-term effects of hitting your child is an ultimate loss of this feeling. When they face any problems in their life, the priority response will be to opt for any shortcut, most probably in the path of violence. You don"t have any voice! You trained them the same.

Weak family bonds: Effects of spanking your child may affect your family relationships. If you can"t tolerate getting physically hurt, it is the same with your child as well. Your child may loss their freedom to consider you as a good ear to share all and everything.

Teaches them to lie: Physical punishments may hurt your child only for the moment when you spank them. But, the long-lasting mental scar will force them to repeat the same mistake in your absence. The only solution for this is to make your child understand what is good and what is bad.