Please peer rewiev This question is somewhat difficult to answer. Discipline and

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This question is somewhat difficult to answer. Discipline and Abuse are not the same. If physical punishment here is meaning abuse, then yes, it does cause children to become violent adults. There is proof of this. Both Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin grew up in similar homes, and both were abused by their Father's. Obviously both of these men grew up to become very violent. Abuse, or physical punishment out of frustration, pure anger, enjoyment, wanting the child to fear you, forcing the child to do something, or for no reason at all will quite often lead to a violent adult. But discipline is not the same. Discipline, as defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, is instruction; training that corrects, molds, or perfects the mental faculties or moral character. Discipline, if done right, will not produce a violent adult. There is a difference in spanking a child out of frustration, or spanking a child in love. Through history, children have often been spanked as a form of discipline, yet there were actually many less incidents of murders and kidnappings and such in the old times then there are now. I know from experience I have been spanked before, and my mom would make sure I knew exactly what I had done, then spank me and give me a hug, telling me that she loved me. There was nothing cruel in that, she was simply correcting me, and it has made me better for it. So abuse, or discipline that is done out of frustration, anger, or something of that sort can and normally does produce violent adults. But correction out of love does not, and in many ways can produce better adults in society.

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Disciplining a child is never abuse. There is a saying "spare the rod and spoil the child". In most general sense, discipline means giving out systematic instructions for a person to follow a particular code of conduct. Discipline is used by parents to teach their children about expectations, guidelines, ethics, values and principles, and code of conduct. It is used to teach right from wrong and to be maintained safety. Disciplining a child does not always have to be in a negative way i.e. punishing a child through scolding or corporal punishment. It can be done using rewards, or praises. Less violent ways include grounding, negative reinforcement (like ignoring, etc.), time-outs, etc. are also useful. Too much passive, indulgent or indifferent child rearing styles causes the children to go astray.

Punishment is however a double-edged sword. Kids mostly act on instinct, rarely realizing what exactly they are doing. So punishment cannot always be absolutely rejected. It needs to be meted out with carefulness and explanation of what was done wrong and why. If the parents are extremely strict and discipline the child quite often, they may destroy his/her future from a psychological point of view. Especially when punishment is done due to frustration, without any explanation, or because child embarrassed you (by failing, or because s/he was criticized by someone, etc.), because s/he does not meet your standards or expectation, etc. This type of punishment usually edges on abuse.

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