Discipline in Nigeria has gotten off the trajectory of the actual purpose, this article is written to sensitize parents and people on alternatives to spanking children and how more effective they are with lesser long term consequences. One thing we need to get right is the true definition of discipline, a lot of people exchange the thought of discipline for punishment (the form of making a person suffer for what he is done and not a correction process but a retribution for an act). Punishment is inflicting pain on a person because of a past behavior. Webster defines it as a form of pain or loss that serves as retribution, a severe, rough, or disastrous treatment while discipline is a form of teaching what behavior is best for a child or person, a way to teach what is good or bad or wrong or right. Of course flogging has being proven to a temporal means of disciplining a child but also with long term consequences see also “ reasons you shouldn't spank kids ”. Over the ...
Spanking/flogging children is normal trend in Nigeria, despite the advocacy and different preachings against it... Nigeria and Africa as a whole is in a mess because of this infliction of punishment born out of ignorance and emotional gratification. Today we are talking about 15 proven effects of spanking on children. 1. spanking your child doesn't bring them closer to you instead it pushes them away from you. Such that your children won't feel free with you because of the fear of your cane. 2. Spanking, just like an old technology, is an old and crude way of training up a child.. Just as You cannot get the same effect when you use an old and crude way of making firewood compared to a better way of using a gas cooker. 3. You inflict emotional trauma and psychological disorder on the child; studies have showed that spanking or flogging a child is connected with having psychological issues later in the future e.g anger, fear, emotional pain e.t.c 4...