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Old 22-02-2004, 20:57   #163
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Re: Should Corporal Punishment Be Brought Back ?

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Originally Posted by Flubflow
If positive reinforcement does not work then you are just not trying hard enough.
The idea of associating NO=SLAP is brutal conditioning best reserved for animals of a lower order.
What you are describing is remedial action based on the worst case scenarios where the child or others could come to worse harm rather than a general model of how to teach children good behavior.
You try reasoning with a 3 year old then.
If positive reinforcement doesn't work its because it doesn't actually affect the child!
If slapping children was so bad, then how come it wasn't until parents stopped doing it that youth crime increased, people started becoming afraid to go down to the shops after dark because of the groups of disrespectful youths?
Why is it that the number of assults on teachers by pupils have gone up since corporal punishment was abolished?
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