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A Recent research finding suggests that spanking kids from an early age lowers their IQ. I have to write that I find myself being skeptical of the interpretation of this research. Think about it, could it be that children who are routinely spanked come from less educated and sophisticated families? As a result, not only is formal education not made a priority with members of the household, but the parent never seeks innovative ways to address child rearing issues?
As far as spanking is concerned, I am not a believer in spanking. Primarily because from my childhood experience, I have never witnessed any adult who spanked a minor and maintained their cool. They usually get angrier to varying degrees as the spanking gets under way. In my opinion, this makes sense as to why the American Psychological Association discredits the idea of using punching bags as a technique to deescalate anger. You get angry, you take it out on a punching bag, and you are only going to get angrier. Needless to say, an adult spanking a child only increases the risk of things getting out of the hand, and the child becoming injured.
Spanking should be discouraged because it is a slippery slope towards child abuse, and encourages poor anger management. As far as IQ is concerned, I grew up in Nigeria being spanked, and so did my siblings, cousins and classmates. Today most of us are all trained professionals in various fields, law, medicine, chemistry, and so on and so forth. While I do believe that kids these days are a lot smarter than kids of generations past, I don't believe it has anything to do with spanking, but rather advances made in math, science, technology and teaching skills.
I believe that any research into what factors influence
intelligence is very important, however this one missed
the boat.
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