Punishment and Parent-Child Relationships Concerning Four Year Old

Basic research was done on the way a child interacts with his parents and the form of punishment used on this child predicting the child's behavior based on his upbringing. A journal was kept on a 4 year old boy of Hispanic descent, and taken account for the way that the child was interacting with his parents who strongly believed in the authoritarian style of parenting . Ten 30 minute intervals observing the child and short interviews with the parents showed the results that physical punishment showed resentment in the child and continued bad behavior. While when the child was punished with other more "submissive" punishment, the child showed signs of little resentment and improved behavior. This result correlates to other studies done on the same subject.…