Is it convenient to punish children? When punishment turns into physical or verbal abuse, or disqualification, expression of anger and retaliation, it is absolutely discouraged. But what we call here educational punishment is of inescapable application in certain occasions. WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT EDUCATIONAL PUNISHMENT Educational punishment must be applied only and whenever there is a need to reduce or eliminate behavior that is harmful to the child himself or to those around him (Sundel and Stone Sundel, 1981). Suppose, for example, that the older sibling hits the youngest one. Can he be allowed to do it? Of course…
This issue has bothered me so much that I find it hard to talk about it, and the thing is that my ten-year-old son Adrian is being bullied at school. This has created so much tension in our home that my husband and I have ended up fighting. He insists that the boy has to learn to fend for himself; he pushes him to not accept being insulted and to answer in the same way. It seems that he’s embarrassed of our boy, and he treats him insensitively, undermining him. Given this, I explain that it is very difficult…