Child health experts have advised parents to avoid using harsh and violent punishments on their children.
Medical experts advised parents to stop slapping their children as a form of punishment, warning that it could result in deafness.
According to the doctors, slapping a child violently could have long-term consequences, including permanent hearing loss.
Prof. Edamisan Temiye, a Consultant Paediatric Haematologist and Oncologist at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, said harshly treating a child increases the rate of aggression in society.
The paediatrician explained, “A child that is treated in a harsh and unfriendly manner is likely to repeat that in his or her children.
“Children who are from a friendly and loving family, usually are brighter and they express themselves more. And they contribute more positively to society than those children who come from those places where children are shouted at and beaten.
“When you slap a child and the eyeballs become turned, it is dangerous as it can cause injury to the child.
“The child may eventually develop deafness from that for life. When you slap a child and injure the middle ear, if it is not treated properly, the child can become deaf from it.”
