As a parent, you want to help your child acknowledge what behaviour is wrong; and how and why to correct it. Ultimately, you want to help them understand why they should have different behaviours.As a family, you want to make sure that your values and expectations are clear. You need to be able to model what they are, and be able to show your children your how and why.
When parents react from a place of anger, frustration, and embarrassment, there is no way the discipline can be positive. When you understand what is behind the behaviour that you’re trying to correct, you can then implement and use the right disciplining methods, as well as assign the right consequences. There is nothing like understanding that even in discipline correction, you can do it out of love; it makes a huge difference.The first seven years of a child’s life is absolutely critical.
Discipline is supposed to be corrective, teaching your child to replace a behaviour that is not acceptable with the correct behaviour and helping them understand why. Why it’s important, what is the preferred way to act, showing them what to do and modelling it to them as well. Many times parents react with anger, fear, embarrassment, or frustration. But when a parent is reacting, they lash out and that child hasn’t necessarily learned what it is you want them to learn.
An example of where this can be used is when it comes to the use of social media. Perhaps you have given your child specific screen time limits and the child continues to ignore this, you can ask what are you doing to fix this? While bringing them into the situation you have in the back of your mind what you’re planning to do, but there’s nothing wrong with having the child be part of the discipline.
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