As a parent you should NOT punish your kids.

Thank you for debating with me all these rounds; it's been a pleasure. I agree we should focus primarily on children and not pets, so I will be brief as well on the matter of pets. 1) Pet training. It is very well-known that no trainer trains pets using punishment anymore. Clicker training is now immensely popular because it revolves around positive reinforcement. Google "clicker training" and you will find much info about it's popularity and uses. Because animals exhibit basic instincts in their behaviors, scientists can learn some aspects of true human behaviors (unaffected by what we think is acceptable behavior based on social norms) by studying them. Since clicker training, which focuses around positive reinforcement and not punishment, works the best on almost every intelligent species of animal, I would venture to think it is a huge hint that children would do best with positive reinforcement and not punishment. 2.) Children.My view on parenting is quite new and radical, and so because of this, I admit I do not agree with some of the things my sources have stated. It's hard to find people who have not gone with the traditional way things have always been done. Despite the fact that this idea of parenting is not well known, it is very effective in the long run. Your child will learn to make his own decisions early in life. You should try to keep your child out of the road, but through telling him that the road is not safe, not through punishing him. After you inform him on the roads' dangers, it is his own decision. Always tell your children of the consequences of bad actions. In the end, no matter what you try to do, your children will always make their own decisions. Punishing only increases their contempt and/fear of you. As I've already stated, punishing children is ineffective and does nothing when it comes to learning. The child will only do what you are saying when you are supervising him. Your child will also be missing out on life lessons when you shield him through restrictions and punishment. He will grow up not truly understanding why he must or must not do something. Contrary to this, if he has always learned things the hard way by himself, he will begin to understand life lessons quicker, and plus, he will begin to even realize that maybe you are right when you're telling him to not do something. I mean, how can he trust you on anything if you're always nagging him to not do something? He won't know what will really be harmful, and he will never be able to see for himself if you were right or wrong. Why should he trust you when you tell him almost everything he wants to do is harmful, and then follows up with restricting him from doing it? He didn't learn the consequences of his actions. And then there are those kids who will go and do what they want anyway (punishment or not). In those cases, punishment was unnecessary. The child would then have gone on to either having learned from the lesson or not, but either way, they would have learned it all on their own. Parents can never teach or enforce this type of learning; the lessons that you do not learn in school. Your child will have to do it alone. But, if you do not enforce punishment, and your child sees that you are consistently right, he will take more heed to your advice and may actually learn (not just pretend to learn when you're watching) that he should listen to you more often. In a parenting style without punishment, you are ensuring that your child will use his own brain (some will, some won't, but they will do or don't regardless of punishment). You are going to have to trust that in the end, your child will make good choices. This may take 18 years, it may take 30 years, or it may take a month. The thing is, they would be doing what they are doing regardless of what you do to them. If they're born sensible, they will make sensible choices. If they're born reckless, they will continue being reckless. It doesn't matter what you do. That is why, in a world where almost everyone believes in punishing a child, kids are not getting any "smarter" at making decisions. It just does not matter what you do. People have to learn that kids will do what they want, regardless of what their parents do to them. It is only when a child knows there will be no punishment from you, that their own punishment is the consequences of their own actions, will they find the inner wisdom and discipline that they may or may not have to truly change. If they think you are always there to punish them, they will think mainly of escaping your punishment, and will not realize what the true life lessons are.Thank you.