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Effective Child Discipline
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All parents at some time have experienced frustration and stress due to various factors throughout their average day and come home to have their children screaming and whining or complaining. The parent just wants things to calm down and for their children to calm down too. If you cannot just tell them to settle down then what can you do? Should you slap them around, put them in a corner, or just let them continue on with themselves? This is what many parents question these days. How should you effectively discipline you child with it working and not having the police called. Many people have come up with ways in which you can effectively discipline your child. A few of these people will have their thoughts put into this paper. First of all what is discipline? The word discipline comes from the Latin word “disciplinare,” meaning “to teach.” Discipline is guidance1. When a parent guides their children to positive behavior and learning, they are ultimately promoting a healthy attitude. Discipline requires thought, planning, and patience. There must be a reason to discipline a child in the first place. Whatever that reason may be there is a reason behind that misbehavior. Commonly children misbehave when they are tired, bored, or hungry 2 . Children also misbehave when they are deprived of adult attention. If the child is from a family marred by divorce, separation, extreme poverty, substance abuse, or parental depression they may be at a greater risk for behavior disorders 2. Also biological factors such as attention- deficit/hyper- activity disorder may predispose children to misbehavior. Pediatric behavior specialists at the University of Michigan have come up with three types of childhood behaviors: good, bad and ugly 3. They say that you should give a lot of attention to good behaviors, ignore the ugly behaviors and discipline rule- breaking behaviors. Once it has been determined that the child has done something deserving of discipline, one must decide how to go about the discipline. The way that a parent goes about the discipline of a child depends on what kind of parent they are. Authoritative parents enforce rules with good reasons and explain things to their children. Parents that don’t establish authority, lack solid rules and allow their children to do whatever he or she wants. There are several ways in which one may discipline a child. One way that is crucial especially to younger children is positive reinforcement.
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