A direct quote of wiki, corporal or physical punishments are punishments that inflict physical pain to a person. Corporal punishments come in many various forms, more commonly seen are push-ups in uniformed organisations.
Why need of punishments?
Before we start thinking about corporal punishments, we should understand the need for punishments. Punishments are dished out mainly because of a mistake. In effort of correcting the mistakes, punishments are given. This fundamental reason has not change as people do make mistakes and we would want to correct it to prevent it from happening.
Effect of Corporal Punishments?
Corporal punishments do form a deterrence effect and forces people to change their actions. However this form of change normally is induced or externally driven. Someone would need to imposed punishments to change the person. It is similar to conditioning of animals in circus or lab monkeys in psychology experiments. When these conditions are removed, people may not change their behaviour and be back to their old self. People react to prevent getting the pain only.
Being externally induced, the onus of the problem lies on the corrector and not the person being corrected. The lack of buy in will also make the method ineffective. In addition, habits are not formed and also not directly changing the habits that make the mistakes.
Corrective Punishments
I would suggest using as I called it, Corrective Punishments. The centre to this model is about targeting the mistakes at the root cause, which is the behaviour or habit. Corrective punishments is about doing actions which solve the mistakes. If I am late, I come in 10 mins the next time. If I forgot to bring something, I would be the one reminding the whole group.
Effective Implementation
To make it effective, the generation of the solution must be in the person's court. The person who have made the mistakes must be the one who come out with the solution. This is to create intrinsic buy ins as well as commitment from the person himself.
Supervision or follow up actions are required to ensure the solution is being done. External party has to place trust in believing the first commitment and reinforce it in the beginning.
Caution
This method requires more effort of thinking for the individual and more follow through for the external party. Individuals may also take this method as though freedom is given and not correct their mistakes. This require more intervention at the other side. As long as follow through is done properly, recalcitrant situation may not occur.
With proper guidance and method used, more intrinsic method of correcting mistakes can be done to allow habits to be formed more willingly and naturally. This would require more time, but habits are not built overnight.
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