Alison Pitton

Comm 3

Persuasive speech outline

I.                    Introduction

1.      I will show pictures of sad looking children who look either physically or mentally abused.

2.      Spanking is a physically abusive form of punishing that can make your child into an aggressive person at school or at other places of play.

3.      Spanking is not a good form of punishment because it trespasses on a sexual area of the body, some people use spanking as a sexual stimulation, spanking arouses anger in children, and there are better alternatives than physically hitting your child.

4.      I did not find a single web site that gave good proof as to why spanking would be good for the child.

II.                 Body

1.      Spanking trespasses on a sexual area of the body.

a)       As stated by nospank.net, like women’s breasts, the buttocks are a sexual erogenous part of the human anatomy, even though they are not actually sex organs.

b)       The butt is not accepted as to being shown in public, so therefore it is a private part.

c)       When we were children we were told that it is bad to let someone touch our private parts—spanking is the touching of a private part.

2.      Some people use spanking as a sexual stimulation.

a)       There are some people who get sexually aroused from spanking children. 

b)       These people could be teachers or other administrative people who work closely with children.

c)       I will read an excerpt from a newspaper in Montreal called The Gazette.

3.      Spanking arouses anger in children.

a)       As stated by cnn.com, “When parents use force, the only message their young children are getting is that big people are mean and it’s OK to use force.”

b)       Children have been known to be more aggressive in sharing toys and other things with children at school; and when they don’t get their way, they tend to use physical violence.

c)       As stated by mindpub.com, the spanked children imitate parental anger when they deal with other children.

4.      There are other alternatives to spanking a child.

a)       You can use “time-out” when punishing a child.

b)       The length of time-out should 1 minute for each year of a child’s age.

c)       Use reward and praise for the desirable behavior, so there is enough incentive for the right behavior.

d)       Ignore the child’s antics and behavior seeking methods.  If that does not work, use time-out.

e)       If possible, distract the child to a new activity so the problem behavior can be automatically interrupted.

f)         Take care of your own stress level.  Parents are more likely to use physical punishment when they are under stress.

III.               Conclusion

1.      Spanking children trespasses on a sexual area of their body, some people get sexually aroused from it, it arouses anger in children, and there are several alternatives to go around spanking your children.

2.      I will show the class the pictures of the innocent children and make the class feel sorry for them.