What Is Corporal Punishment?

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Civilization is the evidence of humanity, said a man, for each civilization is expressed through art, architecture, literature, social moral, and household tradition as well as
Thai culture. The member of Thai household institution is much closed, and the institution is a big network, so it is the base institution of social structure in Thai society that influences culture, economy, and political institution. In the past, many Thai families have inherited an archaic children punishment in household, the Corporal Punishment, from their ancestor. Therefore, in the present, the corporal punishment is legal and being used household and school; parents and teachers punish their children with some cruel methods such as trashing and hitting. However, …show more content…

It is the reason of discipline; parent and teacher expect to see their children’s humbleness and respect to them. However, the most of the causes of punishment on children come from children’s disrespectfulness and unordered parent and teacher’s orders. Because of that, the punisher’s disappointment turns to anger, and then they merged it to the cause of punishment.
The corporal punishment on children is usually categorized into two kinds: negative speech punishment, and harsh physical and mental punishment. The first kind is used to punish children with every ugly word, injustice criticism, sarcasm, racism and harassment; it would destroy children’s self-esteem, while another punishment emphasizes on doing some uncomforting or damage of children body, which is more unfavorably effective, retrieved from Thai UNICEF (2015). Moreover, there is another implied punishment which do harms as well as the two primary kinds: comparison other children that they are better that the punished children. So, these acts of corporal punishment are emotional methods of parent and teacher which provide violence and danger on children’s body, emotion, and even their …show more content…

Physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement, Durrant and Ensom (2012). In addition, Thai parent and teacher always give the very serious way of life to children, which almost come from the dreams and goal of them in the past, and do not allow them to do anything in the way they want by force and punishment and claimed justice. Because of that, Thai children who are afraid of the violent corporal punishment tend to learn and receive knowledge or lesson slower than the other who is not punished. So, most of the punished children have lower chance to express their thought and idea than the other; it is also different for the suppressed children to present their inner ability because of the adult’s

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