Proposition Main Points

● Have boundaries
● Effectiveness of it
● Part of our culture and tradition
● Hitting physical is more effective than verbally discipline
● Will assess the child after disciplining them

Proofs
● When Rizal wrote Ibarra as a gentle and harmless person to free us from colonization of
spain, but afterwards Ibarra became Simoune who already used violence to free us.
● Pets Discipline

Disadvantages of corporal punishment:

● Causes emotional and physical damage/trauma

● Instill fear to children
● Child abuse
● Corporal punishment is a violation of children’s rights to respect for physical integrity and
human dignity, health, development, education and freedom from torture and other cruel,
inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
● The child loses respect and trust for his/her parents
● Children learn to be aggressive: Adults' actions and examples are the best teachers.

Advantages of Corporal Punishment

● With positive discipline, children learn to see a connection between their
behavior, the personal consequences and the impact of their actions on others.

Disadvantage of gentle parenting:

● One of the main drawbacks of gentle parenting is that it is a very intense and
time-consuming method of training up your children. It is difficult to implement
well if you only have two hours a day with your child as you need to be very
hands-on, redirecting your child when needed and working alongside them.
● The term “gentle parenting” hardly sounds controversial. It’s well established that
verbally berating or beating your kids is abusive. Thus, to casual observers,
critics of gentle parenting look like grumpy curmudgeons
● For example, in gentle parenting, the child is encouraged to set their own
boundaries in regard to their own body. So, if they don’t want a hug or don’t want
somebody to hug them, they are given the space to say “no,” and have that “no”
be respected.
Possible rebuttals:

● Part of culture that’s why nowadays we should be the one who should break the cycle
● Can cause trauma to children
● Law about hitting children
● They are young and they don't know what they are doing
● Use other way of disciplining a child
● Childs learn best while doing

Can be our rebuttals:

● If you use rewarding instead of corporal punishment it might lead to a more worse
situation. The child might get used to it to the point that he/she will always look for her
reward.
● We shouldn't break the cycle if we know that it is effective
● Corporal punishment is a way of disciplining a child and discipline is far different from
abuse.
● When we say punishment it is not directly heavy or big punishment immediately. There
are certain processes to evaluate one's punishment that respond to one's behavior.
● Fear is not a hinder, when we say fear it is not like you have a big fear ganon
● It should be taught properly. Someone who has the power to do this needs to think if it is
really applicable to do it or not in some situations.
● Children sometimes take advantage of their freedom and parents need to make them
taste the pain of punishment.
● Receiving a punishment is always a story to tell, to let people know what you have done
that made you deserve the punishment.