What to do … Or Punishment as a crime (Part 1)
«… Council of Europe has begun large-scale campaign aimed at prohibition of corporal punishments of children in member-countries. Council of Europe considers as such slap in the face, box on the ears, slaps, etc. The Deputy Secretary General of Council of Europe Mod de Burburikkio, supervising questions of protection of children, has emphasized that such punishments break human dignity of the child. For today only 16 countries-members of Council have taken restrictive measures in the field of children punishment (both at school, and at home). The leader by the amount of legislative amendments connected to children’s defense is Sweden… »
Do you rightly punish children for their offences? How exactly do you punish the child? Do you allow such punishment, as beating and slaps in the face? How these punishments will be reflected in character and state of mind of your son or daughter?
Becoming a dialogue with own conscience and senses, parents keep on asking a question (good, if they do it) “to beat or to not beat” (the matter doesn’t concern violence, but educational measure) a prankish child? The answer to this question is still opened. Today even more often you can hear statements like these: «Beating, as a method of education, should pass into nothingness, as it generates aggression in child’s soul», «Beating is not necessary, all questions can be solved in a civilized way».
It is curious, that some physicians assert that in no circumstances parents should whip children (mainly boys) before pubescence, because susceptibility to homosexuality is born in the process of whipping (from arising feelings).