When the child does something wrong you need to find a form to discipline them. One of the choices would be
verbally. What you could do is talk to them. Tell them what they did wrong, and try to make them understand.
This will help the child learn from their mistake by understanding what they did wrong exactly. Something that my grandmother says never to do when you are
talking to them is that you should never yell or say "bad boy". That just makes them feel bad and does not teach the child
anything. Another thing that my aunt has tried is that when her children are doing something bad, she counts to 3 giving them a chand to stop doing
what they are doing or pay the consequences. That gives them a change to react and do the right thing.
Physical discipline is something that you really do not want to come to all of the people that I interviewed agreed on. The reason for that is if you are
teaching a child not to hit someone and in return you hit them back then they are really not learning anything.
All that they are learning really, is that it is okay to hit and that is not the message you want to send them.
However, it is true that most parents at one point or another use physical discipline. They usually spank them
on the butt or on their hand. But, you should really try to avoid physical discipline and focus more on having
them learn from their mistakes.
A time-out is another form of discipline. What you do when you give a child a time-out is that you tell them
to either go to their room or sit in a chair in a corner and think about what they have done. This gives the
child time to calm down and realize what they did wrong. Another form of discipline is one that my aunt says has
worked well. Her child bites and hits himself in the head on the floor when he is mad. What she does is sticks
a bar of soap in his mouth when he does that. It is a bit unusual but it actually works. When he sees the soap
coming he knows that he should not do what he is doing anymore. This is something that a doctor told her to do
when she went to him for advice, so it is professional advice.
Punishing them is a hard task. You need to find something that is effective and that fits the crime. Some of the
most common punishments are not television, no new toys, no ice cream, no computer, or grounding. Each one
of these punishments should be fitted to what the child did. If the child does not want to share his/her toys then
you could tell them that they can not have any new toys. If the child does not want to do their homework you can
either tell them they can not watch television or play on the computer. Each punishments goes with what they did.
You also need to make sure that the punishment is not too extreme and that they do complete their punishment. Not only that, my dad says, that you have to see the child and whether they know what they did was bad. If he can tell then he says that the punishment is usually less harsh then it would usually be.
