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Sept. 29, 2004 Some of today's parents seem to be too soft when it comes to disciplining their children and the more I look around me, I see an abundance of this. For in an age where spanking one's child may seem archaic and somewhat brutal, some of these kids are not only ruling their homes, but also their parents as well. Some parents are afraid to raise their voices to their kids when they, the kids do something that the parents consider to be something wrong. What is even worse is that if the child goes undisciplined for performing such an action, he/she may feel that they can do it repeatedly, thus causing much humiliation for the parent when the child enters a world among his/her peers, school. Then the rebel in the kid emerges, after the humiliated parent tries to subdue the child into conveying to him/her that they need to "behave" when among others. The kid throws a fit, that may involve screaming and protesting that whatever incident occurred was the doing of someone else, not him. So the parent who did not take proper disciplinary actions when they should have is faced with a new problem. That problem is, that nothing this child does wrong will ever be viewed as a wrong doing on his part, (the child's). So the frustrated parent sighs and hopes that this is only a phase, but is it? As time wears on, and the child blossoms into a teenager, the problem could become worse, especially if the parent still continues to treat the child as if nothing is wrong. Anyone who was born in the sixties and before was spanked considerably for sometimes just giving a parent a strange look or murmur, so in an age where the child is very much aware that if an undesireable form of punishment is used on him/her, the entire family can be torn apart with just one telephone call to the proper authorities, so discipline the child properly with displays of love and attention and hope for the best. ------------ About the author Judy Ramsook: I am in the process of publishing my first book titled: "Karen's Adventure" which is about two young girls who go in search of their missing parents. I was born and raised in Trinidad & Tobago,then in the mid eighties I came to the US where I attended San Antonio College and The University Of Texas At San Antonio. Email: j2rdy@hotmail.com Tell a friend about this site! ------------ |
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