Is_Smacking_Children_Acceptable_

Good morning, teacher and the fellow students! Today, I am going to talk about the issue “is smacking children acceptable'” During the last few months, a case that a mum used a wooden spoon to discipline her nine years old daughter has been reported to the police officer by the school. An issue on whether should we allow parents to discipline their children by using force or not has been risen. From my study of the topic, I found that smacking is not the way to express anger, neither the best way for discipline children, and it is very harmful to the children not just physically but also mentally, smack an adult is a crime, so how about smack a child' Therefore, I strongly believe that smacking children to discipline should not be accepted. The first thing that I want to talk about is that smacking children is not the way to express anger, neither a good way to discipline a child. There are so many parents who hit their children, and they say this is a way to discipline their children. No, this is not true; it is just an excuse. Parents, have a think about every time before you smack your child. Were you so furious even before your child had done something bad' Or were you in a bad mood, but just haven’t got a way to express your anger' So you smacked your children. And after you smacked your children, were you regretting about that you shouldn’t express your anger on your children, but then you don’t have the courage to admit your misbehave, so you let discipline be your excuse of smacking your children. Okay, if this is the case, then stop lying to yourself. If you are really disciplining your children, ‘loving and caring all the way is the most important thing.’ This was said by a mother who aged 69 after she raised 6 children of her own. Or you can use some other better methods, for example, when they did something wrong, you can try to find out what is the problem, and to solve it without violence. Please remember that, children are still little and vunerable, they are on the way of learning what is right and wrong, and as parents, you have the responsibility to teach them by reasoning and not just smack them. Secondly, smacking is very harmful to children both physically and mentally. Children are still in their developmental phase, physical punishments are very harmful to their bodies at this stage, and it may causes hypoplasia or some other physical limitations. There has been a research on ‘ corporal punishments stunts children’s intelligence’ by Ewen Callaway shows that the IQs of 2 – 4 years old children who received regular spanking from their parents dropped more than 5 points over four years, compared with kids who were not spanked. So what is the point of spending so much money to train your child to be smarter, and spank them at the same time when you know that spanking stunts children’s intelligence' What a waste of resources. Also, smacking can lead to mental illness. I want to ask you guys, have anyone of you had ever been physically punished by your teachers or your parents' If yes, what were you thinking at that time' I can tell you my own story; I went to primary school in China, at that time, physical punishment was still acceptable in such a small village where I lived. I still remember that I had been hit by the teacher by using a little stick, when she was hitting me, I was thinking, ‘I want to be a teacher when I grew up! And I want to teach her children as well, and I am going to hit her children, too!’ How evil was the thought' And please be honest to yourself, have you had a similar thought as mine when you were smacked' From these, we can see that how harmful is smacking do to children. Children’s bodies are so weak, they cannot afford this kind of educational methods, and we know it will damage our children, so shouldn’t we stop this action' Last but not the least, people regard that smack adults as assaults which are criminal offences, but no matter we are children or adults, we are all human beings, and we should have the equal rights, so why do we let off those ones who smacked their children. Our society is a civilised place, where we teach people that hitting others are not the right things to do, but then we also teach our people to discipline their children by smacking, this is just like a black dot on a famous painting which ruined the whole art. And do we want to be called as barbarian' So shall we ban physical punishment' In conclusion, I want to tell all parents and those ones who will become parents in the future, don’t just make discipline be an excuse of smacking your own children. As a sensible and caring parent, you should know that it doesn’t work on this way. What it only does is harming children physically as well as psychologically. For a civilised society, it creates a violent world, which the next generation follow their parents’ misbehaviour. And that is my oral. Thank you for your listening!