Parents discipline their children

Discipline is one of the most misunderstood terms. Parents caring for their dependents will have to quickly come across an often underdeveloped and mostly flawed definition of the term. The Discipline Ministry, an online campaign for parents and carers, was thus formed to develop parents’ theoretical understanding of the term ‘discipline’ and to offer a more positive definition of the term.

For the most part, the concept of discipline is based on a popular view of what happens during military training. Military discipline is understood as a no-nonsense approach to physical fitness, conformity, proper behavior, and is related in some way to the issuance of a clean uniform. From the application of this discipline emerges a soldier who can take orders and outwardly appears more in control of himself.

People who are not exposed to military knowledge have to take a leap to extrapolate a framework for the term. His interpretation is influenced by a number of factors: the concept of harsh military training, his own cultural perspective, and his personal experiences; mostly assuming discipline is equated with physical punishment.

This discipline-as-punishment approach is used to elicit compliance from young children. If the child does something that she does not comply with, discipline is imposed to prevent the child from doing whatever she is doing and to encourage him to behave in a more compliant manner. This is a simple transaction and not very difficult to understand: wrong action is met with physical discomfort, discomfort reduction occurs when right action is observed.

Punishment also known as ‘corporal punishment’ (no relation to the military analogy) can take many forms. Includes, but is not limited to, open hand striking, striking with an implement, ear pulling, hair pulling, shaking, squeezing, pinching, hitting, kicking, burning, cutting, choking, small joint manipulation, activation of pressure points or any form of deprivation of liberty.

It is this idea of ​​’discipline as punishment’ that helped create the Ministry of Discipline and its premise that discipline should truly be a parenting effort, that parents have alternatives other than the use of corporal punishment, and that all people they have a responsibility to promote this campaign to obtain positive results within all families.

Encouraging discipline is not a reactive tactic applied to a ‘naughty’ child. Raising a child requires parents to surround the child with a safe environment that encourages positive behavior, to set clear limits on what is expected of the child, to apply a consistent framework of incentives or disincentives, and to ensure that the child always be treated. Respectfully.

Certainly action and consequence will continue to be an ongoing tactic to guide the child toward the expected behavior, but this is applied as a part of the overall approach to parenting discipline. The following is a list of possible consequences that may work in a nursing discipline program:

positive behavior

1. Reward for increasing positive behavior, such as paying the child a compliment, giving them a monetary incentive, making a certificate of merit, or arranging their favorite food for dinner.

2. Reducing punitive measures to increase positive behavior, such as creating a cautiously applied ‘get out of jail’ card that can be used to skip unpleasant chores or daily practice of a musical instrument.

negative behavior

1. Punitive measures to reduce negative behavior, such as removing hot shower privileges, imposing a monetary fine, recording declining performance on specified indices of the measure, or removing a treasured toy for a specified period of time.

2. Reducing punitive measures to decrease negative behavior gives the child a more specific incentive if they comply by a certain time, for example, running through a restaurant might find a parent starting the child’s dessert; the sooner the child returns to the table, the more dessert he has left.

Parenting discipline does not have a set guide to clarify what incentives or disincentives may work for your child. Each parent and caregiver will need to assess their own circumstance and tailor a program to meet their needs. This is the difficulty of the nursing discipline; It’s not just a quick fix, but a lifestyle choice.