When it comes to raising children there are two different ways to deal with problems. You can punish your child when they do something wrong, and this can involve verbal or physical punishment. Discipline is something that parents can instill in their children by letting them know they are disappointed or removing themselves away from the child. Discipline often has a more lasting effect on a child because they know if they do something wrong that their parents will be disappointed, which is much harder than physical pain to deal with. We must remember that hurt feelings can be much more long lasting than physical pain.

Now that I have read the article on punishment versus discipline my opinion has changed on the subject. I always believed that physical punishment was the worst way to deal with a child's problematic behavior due to the fact...