Punishing children can have immediate effects, but it is difficult to last. Punishing often reinforces a baby's wrong behavior and brings about these negative effects!
We have to strengthen the punishment measures
Punishment often cannot effectively solve problems in the long run. A punishment measure can only be maintained for a period of time, and then it will lose its effectiveness. Afterwards, the severity of the punishment needs to be continuously increased in order to make the baby respond to the punishment we impose. Punishment often escalates from criticism to anger to physical punishment. Once they embark on the path of punishment, parents and babies will enter a vicious cycle - the baby remains indifferent to their parents' punishment, and parents accumulate more anger in their hearts. Under the domination of this anger, parents have to repeatedly increase the intensity of punishment. However, this is not the original intention of punishment, and parents may also feel sorry for their children due to excessive punishment.
Baby will develop immunity to punishment
Punishment is just a negative stimulus for babies, which will weaken as the number of punishments increases. People are born with the ability to adapt to their environment. No matter what kind of stimulation, even if it initially gives us a strong shock, we become accustomed to it as we get used to it.
When parents shout loudly at their baby, 'How many times have I told you not to... not to... you just can't remember!', what truly needs to be reflected upon is oneself. Frequent punishment can make babies more mischievous and ignore the existence of punishment. That's why babies who haven't been punished much are often more obedient, while those who are punished frequently are actually more stubborn.
