Thread (Module/Week 4)

Provide an argument for or against corporal punishment, whichever is your belief. Use course texts, outside texts, and even Scripture to build your case. Why should it, or should it not, be used? If you feel that spanking is acceptable, when should it be used? How should it be used? On who (what age, gender, personality, etc.) should it be used? Reply with your own respectful rebuttals to help your peers think through all aspects of their particular arguments/points.

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· Your minimum 400-word thread is due by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Thursday of Module/Week 4.

· Your two, minimum 200-word, replies are due by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Sunday, ending Module/Week 4.

· Be sure to cite your sources to support your position.

Replies (Module/Week 4)

· In your responses, comment constructively on and/or challenge your peers’ arguments to help one another refine why each of you believes as you do.  Include source support for your position(s).

· Please remember, your responses, comments on and/or challenges to your peers’ arguments are to help one another refine why each DB participant believes as he or she does, not simply to express agreement or disagreement.

· Your minimum two, 200-word replies are due by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Sunday of Module/Week 4.

· Please be sure to support everything in all of your posts utilizing this module/week’s readings/presentations.

Hello Class, It should be clear in your thread if you are choosing to argue for or against corporal punishment.  I will be looking to see the following information:

1. State why corporal punishment should/should not be used; use course text citations and references, and use Scripture for support.

2. Discuss when and how spanking should be used.  Specifically include at what age it is/is not appropriate, and comment on how the child’s personality is to be considered.  If you do not feel that spanking is acceptable, discuss why.

When you quote Scripture, give the version used in parentheses like this: “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it” (Prov. 22:6 NKJV).  Notice that there is not a comma before the Bible version in parentheses.