According to American experts, physicalPunishments, in general, are not only useless for effective upbringing of a child, but also often have a negative impact on his health. This is evidenced by the data of tests conducted among more than eight hundred children aged two to four years and over seven hundred children aged five to nine years. According to these data, children who were regularly subjected to physical punishment had a much harder time with the tests than children who were punished more leniently for their misdeeds. Thus, scientists came to the conclusion that punishments for children should be quite lenient, since some types of punishment lead to a slowdown in the child's intellectual development. This is especially true for physical punishment. Experts advise teaching children to control their emotions and develop their thinking, explaining in words what unreasonable actions and bad behavior can lead to.
