Are You Reinforcing Your Child's Misbehaviour?

I recently accompanied a friend to a prison complex and was amazed at the sheer numbers of visitors there.

Are you reinforcing your child's misbehaviour?

One outstanding thing I noticed were the goodies that the relatives of those incarcerated had bought.Is this not going to be misconstrued as a reward for misbehaving,what will stop someone from committing another offence so that they return to the correctional facility if things do not work out on the outside.Statistics suggest that quite a large number of people imprisoned are actually repeat offenders which buttresses my assertion that relatives of prisoners are the ones enabling offenders to wrong society because they know they will be treated well if imprisoned.The scenes were akin to parents visiting their children at a boarding school, viewing the types of foods that were on display.There was a lot of fast foods ,beverages and all sorts of cookies .Some visitors brought reading materials like books and newspapers.

Prisoners should be made to feel that they have wronged society and therefore have to make restitution.