Hello, everyone.
I welcome you to my blog and another wonderful edition of the hive learner's featured post. Our world is changing and a lot of things that used to play a huge role both in the live of kids and adults are starting to become a thing of the past, some of the changes that is introduced into our world is actually affecting our world negatively while some are making positive impact. One of the changes bringing about negative impact is the Gen Z style of parenting which is completely contrary to how many of us were raised, the Gen Z want to only pamper their kids with no discipline and fail to understand that punishing your child when they are wrong does not mean you hate them.
No doubt while growing up and our parents punished us for wrong deeds, we felt like they hated us, but that helped us know that doing that particular thing was wrong, and the fear of the rod or getting whipped again deterred us from doing that same wrong thing again. Trust me when I say we would have been indulged in a lot of wrong things as kids and while growing up, but when you remember the last time you were whipped for being involved in your last wrong deed, you will not find the courage to want to pass through such a thing again.
Overtime it became a habit, we did not want to be involved in wrong doings, no longer because of the fear of getting whipped but because we have now come to realise that is the wrong thing to do and we should not in anyway be involved in it. Remember at first we don't want to be involved because of the fear of getting whipped before it developed to the point of not wanting to do it at all, so now when you raise your kids like the Gen Z parents are doing and preaching, what stops them at first?? What do they get scared of when they hear friends say let's do this or that which is a wrong thing to do? Do they agree to be a part of it? Or do they stop because they know how their parents will react to the situation?
Gen Z parents now laugh over everything a child does, zero punishment for the child, some even go as far as recording the child in the act for social media post and then how will these children know that these acts are wrong and should not be done when the adults in their life laugh over the action or act? What do you think that tells them? It is more like a go ahead to do more which means that in the nearest future our world will be filled with children who cannot tell right from wrong because those who were supposed to impact that knowledge in them failed to do so.
So yes, corporal punishment makes kids better when it is done when needed; some of our parents made the mistake of exercising corporal punishment both in cases that actually require just a word of advice or calm correction and those that actually did require corporal punishment, which is why many kids ended up traumatized.