How Do You Deal With Getting Corporal Punishment?
• Identify whether a “spanking” or “slapping” is indeed corporal punishment, or if it is abuse/violence. • Attempt to fill in this sentence, “I did XXXXXXXXX, which I know is the wrong thing to do, so I was spanked.” • If you can fill in that sentence, it is corporal punishment. • Try to fill in this sentence, “I did XXXXXXXXX, and it is not the wrong thing to do, yet I was spanked.” • If you can fill in this sentence, it will generally fall into the abuse category. Something is wrong if you cannot see a very clear X event that caused Y to happen. • Research what is allowed or not allowed as corporal punishment at your school and in your state. • Think about how you can prevent corporal punishment, rather than dealing with it. • Speak with the person administering the punishment to discuss another alternative. • If it is your parents, ask them to ground you as opposed to being spanked. • If it is a school administrator, ask them for detention instead. • There is no harm in asking for a