Children Quote by Benjamin Spock

What children learn from punishment is that might makes right. When they are old and strong enough, they will try to get their ownback;…

— Bruno Bettelheim

Routine physical punishment such as spanking teaches a toddler that might makes right and that it is fine to hit when one is stronger…

— Alicia F Lieberman

When we use punishment, our children are robbed of the opportunity to develop their own inner discipline-the ability to act with integrity, wisdom, compassion,…

— Barbara Coloroso

I've never been a believer in the physical punishment of children. I don't think it is necessary.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

The difference between punishment and discipline is a powerful child.

— Danny Silk

It is sometimes difficult to punish a child for doing the wrong thing knowing that from his own point of view,he was doing the…

— Terry Mark

In the short term, corporal punishment may produce obedience. But it is a fact documented by research that in the long term the results…

— Alice Miller

No parent ought to punish a child except with a view to the child's good. And in order to do good to a child…

— Henry Clay Trumbull

If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one…

— Dora Russell

The best punishment to give a stubborn child is not a thorough beating, but a nice quantity of Love.

— Terry Mark

A child whose life is full of the threat and fear of punishment is locked into babyhood. There is no way for him to…

— John Holt

I will here say to parents, that kind words and loving actions towards children, will subdue their uneducated nature a great deal better than…

— Brigham Young