In discussions between parents, the so-called spanking has been coming back for years. Some people admit with shame: I spanked my child and I feel guilty However, there are still people among parents who believe spanking , or slapping hands for effective and harmless methods of disciplining a child. If spanking are they always bad? I gave spanking child - how should I behave now? In this article, we explain the long-term consequences of giving to your child spanking. Let's remember that slap - understood as a disciplinary slap on the child's buttocks β is a colloquial expression.
However, due to the fact that it is widely present on the forum of public discussions, we will also use it in this article. Spanking , hitting the hands or shaking the child are corporal punishments that are intended to cause discomfort but not lead to permanent injury , thanks to which the caregiver can correct and control the child's behavior [1].
Many parents use it spanking unintentionally, when all methods used to discipline the child have failed and the parent feels pushed to the extreme. Therefore, he gives the child physical punishment in the form of slap, doing it out of reflex. This is the ultimate sign of a parent's helplessness in the face of their child's difficult behavior.
It is from the mouths of such parents that the following statement is later made on the forum: I spanked my child and I feel guilty These parents realize that all forms of physical violence against a child, even those that seem innocent, are very harmful. The second group of parents uses spanking as a permanent element of its strategy raising a child. Guardians are convinced of the supposedly beneficial impact of corporal punishment on the child, and they call giving up corporal punishment the so-called stress-free upbringing.
Such parents on the forum do not say: I spanked a child, I regret it , but they often use statements justifying physical punishment, e. I was spanked and it was good for me. Psychologists emphasize that such statements from adults are most often a way of coping with their own experiences of violence suffered in childhood by their loved ones [2].
