The dangers of using intimidation to teach 15 Articles

by Trudi Buck

There are a variety of techniques parents can employ to teach their children. From hands on to subliminal and osmosis, the options are many. Intimidation, however, should never be one of them. The utilization of intimid...read more

by Dawn Hawkins

Intimidation comes in many forms. It can be anything from a very stern voice to a spanking. Parents often force their children to do what they want them to through intimidation. Please be warned that you walk a dangerous l...read more

by Nora Carver

While there are many controversial methods of teaching, intimidation seems to be the mostly widely overused and underachieving means used today. Though spanking a child may result in their ability to recite the times table...read more

by Alissa King

The danger of using intimidation to teach is that children learn how to intimidate in return. They do not, however, sufficiently learn the concepts that are being forced upon them. If you bully thoughts into a child's head...read more

by HarleyDHoecherl

Using intimidation to teach covers a wide spectrum of various ways that people use intimidation while trying to teach something to someone, but I think most of us would agree that using intimidation to teach, especially a...read more

by Autore

Parenting is all about choices, consequences and training your child to make good decisions. Sounds simple, its not, first off, our immediate reaction to bad behavior is anger. Its a pattern that must be stopped. We...read more

by Danelle Karth

Using Intimidation and or Fear as a Teaching Method It is true that frustration can win out and as such intimidation becomes an easy method to try and teach a child something important. However such a teaching method is...read more

by Joan Kaigler

The freakish quality about families have to do with the way we keep secrets from each other. That has always been my family. No one tells anyone anything. What happened to the cohesiveness of family? Does it even exist any...read more

by Andrea Johnson

Fear or intimidation as motivators is terminally flawed. I will back this up with some salient points: 1. The basis for fear is often an untruth or wild imagination, somewhat like the monster in the closet. 2. While t...read more

by Tanesa Sanchez

There are many dangers involved when you or someone uses intimidation to teach a child right from wrong. Intimidation, is to frighten and pressure through threatening. Intimidating a child does not get them to learn, it ...read more

by Callista Meyer

How can one fathom that intimidation teaches? Intimidation is a form of bullying used my children and adults. It teaches children to fear others and obey when threatened, I think that is about all it actually teaches. ...read more

by Charlene Peters

Green peas consist of an unsavory inner mush and a curious texture of cratered skin that cause seriously alarm to my taste buds. During my childhood, my parents enforced the rule of eating everything on your plate. If ev...read more

by Taylor Hubbard

If you use intimidation to teach then you are sending two simple messages to your student. One, learning is not enjoyable. And two, intimidation is a way to teach others. These are probably not the things you meant to be t...read more

by Todd Daigneault

Intimidation as a teaching method to young children can have absolutely catastrophic results on the development of children. Children can end up suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome, and a host of other psychologi...read more

by Nicolette Romero (nom de plume)

"What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches." -Karl Menninger The most significant risk of using intimidation as a teaching strategy is failing to teach. Take time to reflect on your favorite teache...read more