The education of beating and scolding originated from the human family. If a person has never been punished by his parents, he does not know how to punish others. We have many patterns of behavior ourselves, all related to your home education. We all know that we don't like to be scolded, but invisibly beating and scolding education has been embedded in our lives. For the discipline of your dog, when faced with the dog's behavior problem, because you can't find a solution, you will use the method of beating and scolding, because at the moment, you may see fake Effect, such as Trial and Error Learning we mentioned at the beginning.

In the middle of the night, your dog barks because he hears movement outside. You scold or punish the dog in order to keep the dog from making noise. The barking stopped temporarily due to scolding or punishment, but the dog would bark more and more severely in the future. Punishment ostensibly stops barking, but in essence enhances the barking behavior, as the dog gets a brief social interaction with you and it after barking, both verbally and even physically . And this social contact is exactly what dogs want.

Similar to positive reinforcement, what is positive reinforcement? Positive reinforcement is: giving a dog something that makes the behavior happen more often. And here's the situation: Give dogs the social touch they like and make barking more frequent. So the final result of the punishment turned out to be: enhanced behavior, while also causing the dog to respond frightened to you. Beating and scolding education, after parents can't find a way to deal with their children's bad behavior, is the only way to make parents feel better, because at least you have done something instead of nothing.

The reality is this: You should be more knowledgeable before you educate a child or a dog.

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① Punishment will make the animal afraid: when it is punished, it temporarily stops its behavior because of fear. This fear makes him hide, makes him fear you, but he has no idea what's wrong.

②... Punishment will make the dog cringe: Dogs who are often punished will be reluctant to do anything because they are afraid of being punished again, let alone try new behaviors. Try not to do it, it's pathetic to be hurt mentally.

③ Punishment will give it another reward: while punishing the dog, you also give it the greatest attention, what it receives is the coexistence of punishment and reward, because the reward is often far greater than penalty. Instead of solving the problem, doing so aggravates it.

④ Punishment is often ineffective: Punish two dogs who are fighting, they will not stop fighting because of this, but instead they will fight when you can't see it, and the fight will be more serious.

⑤ Punishment will increase the animal's fear: the dog is afraid of barking at strangers, and the punishment will make it more afraid. It will mistakenly think that the stranger who originally scared it will also cause you to punish it, so the punishment is not only ineffective, but makes the dog more worried and fearful.

⑥Your punishment may be wrong: there is not only one thing that happens at the same time, how do you know that you can punish the behavior you want to punish?

⑦ Punishment leads to luck Psychology: Punishment often leads to a fluke, as if you punish your dog for stealing through the trash can, and you find out that it is a punishment. Turning over the trash can without being found is a Zhongda Lotto, and turning over the trash can becomes a hope. This is the fluke mentality caused by the punishment.

⑧ Punishment may lead to animal injury: The force that the dog can withstand is often not under your control, and you may also lose emotional control and cause the dog to be injured or killed.

⑨ Punishment will lose its desire: when you punish it often, it will make it not know how to live with you, and it will be at a loss. Even it will lose trust in you.

⑩ Punishment may also cause you to be injured: not every dog faces punishment silently, and many dogs fight back to protect themselves. When a dog fights back to protect itself, it's a fight back to protect its own life, and you can easily get hurt.