Topic: The effect of corporal punishment on children In recent years many serious problems related to the corporal punishment on children have been made public. This kind of bullying is not only harmful to children physical health but their mental development as well. One of the bad influences is the hurts on children’s’ health. In some cases, corporal punishment from adults causes wounds on the kid’s body; however, they are too young to suffer the smallest pains and it may take the wounds a long time to heal. Nevertheless, it is much more serious when children have to live together with the consequences of violence all of their life. For example, in some regretful situations, children no longer have ability of walking, running because of the ruthless beat on their legs caused by adults. Apart from the physical effects, corporal punishment causes psychological influence. After suffering continuous violence, children are always obsessive of what happened and what to do to avoid the adults’ anger. As a result, they become more and more so reserved and closed that they do not want to communicate with others to share their problems. In addition, the mental pains also affect the development of children. When they grow up, they may to be cruel and ruthless persons who go on using violent actions to treat others as the way they were treated. It commonly believed that you have to be cruel to be kind, spare the rod and spoil the children; however, the corporal punishment should not be taken advantage while there are many ways effective to make them to obey adults’ orders.