Jeronimo brunel
Honors american literature
Mrs. Waterman
9/20/2021
Ch. 5 The Scarlet Letter Imitation Piece
It may seem silly, that people use spanking to punish their kids–especially when a child hits their brother or sister to teach them not to be violent by being violent towards their child– this is not the right thing to do, you are just showing tha by being violent you have power over them which they will now have implanted in their heads that violence equals power. But when the kids don’t listen to what the parents are saying they get frustrated and irritated, that’s when they get violent towards their kids. It also gets on parents’ nerves when the kids talk back at them and that just gets them boiling with anger because they are thinking, who is this kid talking to, and that’s when kids get spanked. It was as if they were taunting and mocking their parents. All other options of how to punish the kids fly right by because of the anger and they go straight to violence. It is like a judge not thinking a case through and just giving the death sentence.
It might be, too, that the parents were taught this way when they were little and that’s why they have this anger management problem. This just goes to show that violence should never be the 1st choice in any situation, and it shows how it does affect your child when you hit them. Now you can see how “the tempter of souls” affects your kids mentaly and physically. Maybe parents say they are helping their kids, they say that that’s how they learn and they say that that’s the only way. Finally, the parents might see that what they are doing is wrong and change their method towards teaching their kids.