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Childhood is a special period in each one’s life. Should children need love and sweet memories even in cases they are punished by their parents when they make mistake. The punishments should stop at an acceptable level and must have educational effects. From my experience, I believe that severe punishment is not a good way of teaching children to be good.
When the children are punished for their mistakes by violent punishments such as hitting, spanking without explaining about the faults, they will feel unconvinced of the punishment. The children will not realize whether the problems they caused are wrong or right. The matter will become more serious if the children do not receive guides from adults for the same events next times. What remains in their mind is images of rods, cruel face from fathers or cold attitude of mothers in uncontrolled situations. For example: Coming back home after a tiring day at office, a mother sees broken pieces of a bowl on floor. Immediately she boxes her child’s ears instead of learning about the fact. The real reason may result from a cat jumping up on a table and made the bowl fail. Even if the truth is that the child dropped the bowl by mistake, the mother should act elegantly. After all these, be sure that an impression child’s mind is fear of seeing their mother then. As a result, the distance between the child and his parents becomes further and further within passing years.
The second reason makes me afraid is that a childhood imbued with strong corporal punishment can badly effect on children’s behavior when they are mature. A child is who is usually educated by rod or fist has a trend forwards using kickboxing, karate instead of verbal language to solve problems they face in real life! For these children, it seems that violence is the only option to deal with other people when contradiction happens. This is an indicated tendency because children are usually in the habit of aping the grow-ups. Mood and mind of child is like a pure paper and things written on it will remain during their life-years.
In summary, severe punishment is not necessary when we educate our children. There are other ways to teach them which get both targets: warning them about bad results if they continue to repeat their wrong actions and showing them right ways to solve/conduct difficult problems/situations.
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