Punishment for Childeren Is Ti Good or Bad

As children grow up, does punishment affect children in a better or a worse way?

Punishing children differs from country to country. Some parents choose to punish their children while the others take the term “punishment” as physical and mental abuse. According to the story “Golden Mountain” by Irene Kai, Margaret raised her children strictly as possible by punishing them with the green stick when they have done something wrong and sometimes her children were even beaten up for no reason. Also, by reading the chapters “Mother” and “Oi Ling,” it seems that the children had to put up with a painful life that they had no freedom for themselves.

As the reader, it was painful to read how Oi Ling and her sisters got beat up, but it seems that after all the punishments that they got from their mother they turned out to be better as adults. At the end of Margaret’s life, she was not alone as Wong Oi did; she had her daughters with her and did not felt alone when she died. As a child from a different country, I was punished by my parents as a child, but I did not had to go through a hard life as Oi Ling and her sisters did.

I believe parents should punish their children, but not as hard as Margaret did for her children.