You hear more and more every day about a mother or father accidentally killing their child for a small misbehavior. This is becoming more and more of a problem. Parenting children is a very difficult task, one of the most challenging things anyone will ever encounter. As Andy Smithson quoted, “The sign of great parenting is not the child’s behavior. The sign of truly great parenting is the parent’s behavior.” Parents want their children to grow up respectful, successful, and carefree. They also want the children to set down to the right path so they do not have it as hard as themselves. When kids misbehave, parents tend to turn to spanking as a solution to solving a problem for the child’s misbehavior. Hitting children is not the right answer to teaching them a lesson. Hitting children should be banned because it models hitting, devalues the child, and leads to psychological effects. …show more content…
When confronted, her daughter said, “I am just playing mommy.” This mother never spanked another child. Children love to imitate, especially people whom they love and respect. They perceive that it is okay for them to do whatever you do. Parents must keep in mind that they are bringing up someone else’s mother or father, and wife and husband. The same discipline techniques parents employ with their children are the ones they [children] are most likely to carry on in their own parenting. One may believe that spanking does not have any influence on children, however, hitting models hitting. Children will grow up to do the same to their own kids thinking it is the right thing. “Even the best of us parents”, said writer Brendan L Smith, “do not always have that kind of