Posted by Devera on 2014/11/08 under Kids When scanning the Facebook of a family friend who I admired I found they’d liked and shared a post that suggested if parents ‘Beat their children the old fashioned way, there would be less youth delinquents and drug addicts.’ I was completely shocked. In fact it has the opposite effect, children are very impressionable from a young age and parental violence or punishment is a common theme in adult offenders from childhood records. When children witness themselves or others being beaten it can encourage the same behaviour in them when they grow up. May I remind you that many of the youth delinquents and drug addicts did have parents who beat or shouted at them severely, it can cause youths to rebel or accept their roles as trouble makers, which leads them to crime. Spoiling is also bad as children do not learn the risks of their actions. Instead parents should explain to their child what they’re doing wrong and give non-violent punishments which work just as well, as long as you stay consistent with them. A child needs to learn the moral reasoning behind why they shouldn’t do something instead of just ‘If you do this, you get hit.’