Smacking children can affect their intelligence

Experts have found that the use of smacking to correct a child’s behaviour reduces their emotional intelligence executive functioning skills, affecting the ability to think on the spot.
 
Aug. 1, 2011 - PRLog -- Experts have found that the use of smacking to correct a child’s behaviour reduces their emotional intelligence executive functioning skills, affecting the ability to think on the spot.

Children in a school which used non-physical punishment, such as time outs and warnings, have significantly outperformed peers in a school using physical punishment in tasks.

The study, published in the journal Social Development, monitored 63 children in two private schools in West Africa. One school used beating with a stick, slapping of the head and pinching for a range of offences including forgetting their pencil. The other, used time outs and warnings to punish their students. The students all came from a similar background and although all parents agreed with corporal punishment, only one school used this method of discipline.

The students were then tested on their executive functioning skills, which allow us to think on our feet and modify our behaviour if necessary. Kindergarten children from both schools preformed similarly in the tests but from their first year, the children subjected to corporal punishment performed far poorer than their counterparts from the other school.
Corporal punishment does not teach children how to behave

Study author, Professor Victoria Talwar, from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, said, “This study demonstrates that corporal punishment does not teach children how to behave or improve their learning.

“In the short term, it may not have any negative effects; but if relied upon over time it does not support children’s problem-solving skills, or their abilities to inhibit inappropriate behaviour or to learn.”

The study states, “These results point to the need to consider interactions among discipline style, age, and internalization processes of self-regulation to better understand environmental influences on EF[executive functioning] development.”
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