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While the role of punishment is to teach a child boundaries as well as consequences, rewards encourage positive behaviour of a child in a way of encouraging the child to want to repeat such behaviour, making the child feel valued and also motivated. Punishment teaches a child that certain behaviours have negative consequences, while reward encourages repetition of good behaviours.
Punishing a child for bad behaviour is not as effective as rewarding a child for good behaviour. When you spare the rod, you spoil the child, and when a child does something worth praising or something good, it surely calls for a reward. A lesson sticks strongly with a child when he is rewarded and also when he is punished; this helps the child understand and differentiate between bad and good habits and behaviours.
When a child is only punished by his parent when they engage in bad behaviours without being rewarded when they do good, it doesn’t speak well of the parent. As adults today, we find that in our places of work, we get queries and sometimes punishment for mistakes we might have made during the course of our work, which makes us feel bad. What makes us want to do better most times is when our contribution and efforts are recognised and appreciated. In this sense, we tend to want to do better and give our all, try as much as possible to correct our mistakes as well as prevent our mistakes from happening again.
Praise and rewards for good behaviour to me goods a long way in comparison to punishment; rewards will make the child motivated to do better, although punishing a child will make the child understand the grievance of what he/she has done and will teach them not to indulge in such another time.
Rewarding a child for good behaviour mostly creates strong bonds with children as well as boosting their self-esteem, while a child who is overly punished may draw away from their parent and may have issues with self-esteem in the long run.
It is the presence of punishment that has made me grow up with a conscience, having to understand what is good and what behaviour is bad and why I should stay away from bad behaviours and what benefits I will get from good behaviours. I have no strong memories of a reward system that my parents had for their kids when they did good, but I can remember vividly how we were punished for bad behaviours, which always kept me in line or in check.
Once, my father had promised to reward me if I passed my WASSCE and JAMB examinations in one sitting; the reward he offered was what made me do well in those exams. If he had promised to punish me, it might have had the same outcome, but it wouldn't have been all fun for me.
Punishment should not go without rewards, and parents should understand when it is necessary to punish a child and should always pay close attention to their children and always try to reward them for good behaviour, but while rewarding them for good behaviour, they should also make them understand why they are rewarded and why they should stick not for the rewards but for the fact that it is the right way to live.
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