Parent Punishments

I liked the way chapter 10 really broke down how parenting can completely help or hurt a child. I think in my personal experience my parents had good mixes of both authoritarian and permissive parenting. I remember learning a lot when I was younger through trials and experience I have had and I can relate to almost all factors in chapter ten. I can think of certain examples of how culture variations, discipline and punishment have somehow helped me to develop as a person. I can remember how punishment in my family was never one dimensional. The4re were different types and levels all depending on the crime committed. My parents were very different and they way they worked together gave me such good balance in I act and have developed. In reading the book mentioned something about how children who at a young age are beaten, or spanked so to speak have tendencies to grow up to be bullies. I was spanked at a young age and do not think I was a bully at all whatsoever. It also states that children that get spanked are likely to become abusive adults. There is the fact that I am only 21 but I do not think that I am abusive at all.