To_Spank_Or_Not_To_Spank

To Spank Or Not To Spank To Spank or Not to Spank “No, Valerie! You can’t play with me!” a bratty six-year-old screamed at his helpless three-year-old sister. “Give me the controller now,” he demanded as he ripped it from his sister’s tender hands and pushed her to the floor. Then the toddler started to cry in pain and called for her father. Today’s parents deal with the form of discipline in a much more liberal sense. Many parents nowadays would sit down and talk with their young child explaining to them that what they did was wrong, but not to worry because it’s not really their fault because they didn’t know any better. Then they send their child off on a 15-minute “timeout.” However, I feel that modern means of child discipline are far too liberal and ineffective and that sometimes children need to be disciplined. Cornell West and Sylvia Ann Hewlett’s A World Upside Down takes us deep inside the world of teen violence, murder, crime, and suicide. Mind boggling facts such as “Children are now responsible for a staggering 20 million crimes a year” fill the article. West and Hewlett also write, “The enormous children, child, parents, kids, lerner, discipline, now, moral, make, young, wrong, spanking, pain, nurture, educate, distinctions, association, act, world, west, understand, think, teaches, stove, spank, says, remember, out, mean, liberal, learn, hand, doesn’t, difference, because