Plus, spanking opponents argue, there are plenty of other alternative ways to
discipline a child who is acting inappropriately.
We know discipline is important in raising healthy children, yet how can you properly
discipline a child who feels things more acutely than average?
At what age do you recommend
disciplining a child who continues this behavior?
Several things are clear: These are happy,
disciplined children who love going to school, and love Jesus.
Not exact matches
Think of the «rules» or what is right and wrong, like a parent
who sets guidelines for their
child to keep them safe, and when they step out of those guidelines a good parent
disciplines the
child.
it also calls for the beating of
children to
discipline them, and approves the punishment of the innocent along with the guilty.think of all the innocent
children who died i noah's flood and the killing of everyone in sodom and gomorrah.
Information about the training of professionals in private practice
who treat
children, youth, and families can usually be obtained by writing the national, state or local office of the appropriate professional association of the particular counseling
discipline: pastoral counseling, social work, clinical psychology, psychiatry, marriage counseling.
The Village Church, a Southern Baptist mega-church in the Dallas area, recently
disciplined a woman
who had her marriage annulled when she found out that her husband had been looking at
child porn.
Please note that the emergency contact number which you provide on the consent form needs to indicate
who we should contact during the week should your
child need to be sent home for illness or
discipline issues.
A
discipline - focus for spiritual formation can lead to legalism — as evidenced by the Christians
who congratulate themselves on their daily Bible reading, church attendance, or the superior vocations of their
children.
The volume includes two additional studies on theologians
who, although they hold quite pessimistic views on the nature of
children, do not endorse physical
discipline: the Reformer John Calvin and the 18th - century American Calvinist Jonathan Edwards.
Still thinking of
discipline in terms of
child care, it becomes apparent, however, that the best prevention is education whenever it can be achieved that is, that the
child who can learn to anticipate consequences for himself is in a much better position to avoid harmful misconduct than the
child who relies wholly on external admonitions.
In this most elementary area of parent -
child relationships, such a notion rescues
discipline from connotations of punishment and has the further virtue of counseling foresight, according to which the best
disciplining parent is the one
who anticipates that from which the
child alone can not protect himself and does something about it before the
child is injured.
In the process of my slow reconciliation to the term I have been especially aided by experts in
child study,
who have been redefining
discipline as protection of the
child from that from which he is not yet ready to protect himself.
Whoever spares the rod (
discipline, not physical) hates their
children, but the one
who loves their
children is careful to
discipline them.
The idea that parents can or should worship with
children at home assumes that church members
who become parents are committed, self -
disciplined Christians
who model Christian behavior at home.
Parents are urged to develop an atmosphere of mutual respect; to communicate on levels of fun and recreation as well as on
discipline and advice; to allow a
child to learn «through natural consequences» — that is, by experiencing what happens when he dawdles in the morning and is permitted to experience the unpleasantness and embarrassment of being late to school; to encourage the
child and spend time with him playing and learning (positively) rather than spending time lecturing and
disciplining (negatively), since the
child who is misbehaving is often merely craving attention and if he gets it in pleasant, constructive ways, he will not demand it in antisocial ways; to avoid trying to put the
child in a mold of what the parent thinks he should do and be, or what other people think he should do and be, rather than what his natural gifts and tendencies indicate; to take time to train the
child in basic skills — to bake a cake, pound a nail, sketch or write or play a melody — including those things the parents know and do well and are interested in.
You seem like someone
who is interested in these kind of word studies so maybe you know if this is accurate or not: Someone else pointed out to me that the word for «punishment» in the sheep / goat passage is a Greek word that has more of a correction /
discipline /
child - training / restorative / purifying focus than «punishment» does in English.
In the upside down Rawlsian universe, a single mother
who managed to improve her lot and that of her
children through hard work, thrift, and
discipline would find her somewhat greater resources subject to redistribution to another single mother
who, say, was addicted to drugs, neglected her
children, and refused to work.
However, if you are just beginning to institute training on an already rebellious
child,
who runs from
discipline and is too incoherent to listen, then use whatever force is necessary to bring him to bay.
«Is the Minister aware that the recent guidelines of the House of Bishops state clearly that those
who enter a same - sex marriage, together with
children in their care, should be welcomed into the life of worshiping communities, and also that the Church of England is about to begin a two - year process of structured conversations to explore the changing attitudes to human sexuality and their implications for the life of the church and its
disciplines?»
If good parents are not evil for deliberately bringing
children into this world and inevitably having to
discipline them in some fashion or another then neither is God (
who is better than any earthly parent could ever be) for creating man.
The Scottish Government has declared it will support a member's bill brought forward by Green MSP John Finnie to scrap the legal defence of justifiable assault for parents
who physically
discipline their
children.
They should also demand accountability of their members,
disciplining those
who neglect
child support and alimony payments.
The Welsh Government wants to remove the legal defence for parents
who use corporal punishment to
discipline children.
Like I said earlier, ultimately it is up to the parent to decide the best way to
discipline his / her
child, but there are alternatives to spanking for those
who desire them.
Annie also has a lot of information for parents
who want to find other methods of
disciplining their
child in her Best Anti-Spanking Resources post.
An example might be in the area of positive
discipline for applicants
who have infants and have not yet had the opportunity to practice positive
discipline with their own
children.
I am a fairly strict parent and this has been remarked upon several times by people
who are decidedly not AP — but I teach through gentle
discipline and I meet what I believe to be the needs of my
children at their stages of development.
Iben Sandahl, a licensed narrative psychotherapist, MPF, and author of the acclaimed parenting book, The Danish Way, told Mother magazine that
children who are raised by parents
who do not employ an ultimatum - based system of
discipline are much more inclined to both value and exhibit respect as opposed to fear or apathy.
Unfortunately, the result is
children who lack self -
discipline and have poor emotional regulation.
Although most moms
who answered our survey — 81 percent — were spanked as
children, only 49 percent say they use this method in
disciplining their own kids.
One of the biggest
child discipline issues parents have to handle is how to deal with a
child who is talking back to them.
Here mothers receive the support and companionship of other moms
who have
children the same age, as well as information about issues such as toilet training and
discipline.
Parenting a defiant
child who is easily frustrated requires different
discipline strategies compared to a calm
child who is eager to please.
The study found that
children in this age group
who were subjected to harsh verbal
discipline were more likely to exhibit aggressive and violent behavior.
Fathers
who are committed to raising responsible
children make the needed efforts to teach their
children self -
discipline.
By encouraging those
who still advocate corporal punishment to see the facts behind reasons parents today think corporal punishment works and breaking down those reasons to see why those reasons don't stand up to facts and examination, we can protect the most vulnerable members of society:
children,
who should be taught how to behave correctly on their own and develop the skills to regulate their own behavior so that they don't need to be constantly
disciplined and
who should not be physically hurt so that they obey at that particular moment, without learning how to regulate themselves in the future.
There isn't a single right way to
discipline kids.There are plenty of ways to raise a happy
child who turns into a responsible adult.
Parents
who practice permissive parenting don't
discipline or impose rules; they don't want to have any conflict with their
children believe kids should regulate themselves.
That's just one small part of being a parent — school is important, yes, but there are a lot of other factors that go into how parents will have and raise
children, from how many they'll have to how far apart they'll be born or adopted to religious instruction to
discipline to
who'll care for them to activities and sports.
, Texas, that will assemble, for the first time, an international group of leading policy makers, attorneys, educators,
children's rights activists, and researchers from multiple
disciplines (e.g., anthropology, criminology, history, medicine psychology, social work, and sociology) as well as other interested individuals
who concur that corporal punishment of
children is an unsuitable and potentially damaging way to
discipline and teach
children.
Global Summit on Ending Corporate Punishment and Promoting Positive
Discipline Registrations are being accepted now for this June 2011 conference in Dallas, Texas, that will assemble, for the first time, an international group of leading policy makers, attorneys, educators,
children's rights activists, and researchers from multiple
disciplines (e.g., anthropology, criminology, history, medicine psychology, social work, and sociology) as well as other interested individuals
who concur that corporal punishment of
children is an unsuitable and potentially damaging way to
discipline and teach
children.
The good news is that following the practices in this article consistently not only raises a self -
disciplined child, it raises a
child who knows you'll follow through, so he doesn't need to be asked five times to do something.
It's so important to find like - minded parents
who can offer their «been there, done that» stories, emotional scaffolding, and specific suggestions for when you feel confused as to what to do about your
child's behavior, or when you question whether this new thing you're trying, like positive
discipline instead of spanking, for example, is going to work out in the long term, or how exactly to keep those family attachment bonds strong as your
children grow, or how to move forward when your family encounters challenging life circumstances.
If you're a fan of No Drama
Discipline and want the people
who help you care for your
children to know about your
discipline approach, then keep reading.
Grandparents raising grandchildren and grandparents
who provide regular
child care will have to be less indulgent and more consistent in
disciplining grandchildren.
Parents
who are emotionally responsive, set empathic limits, model emotional regulation, and encourage
children to pursue their passions will raise self -
disciplined kids, and that's probably true regardless of whether the
child passes the marshmallow test at age four.
One major finding of the MTA Study conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health (2) was that the
children of parents
who developed a
disciplined yet positive approach to parenting were able to maintain treatment gains during the 14 month period of the study.
It does this by building on the work of our many partners across services and
disciplines through a whole community approach to transform the skills of parents and the workforce of all those
who come into the life of the
child.