"Natural consequences" refers to the outcomes or results that occur as a direct result of our actions or choices, without any external intervention or artificial consequences imposed by others. It emphasizes that the consequences naturally occur based on the nature of the action itself.
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Your role of simply loving and protecting your baby from pain and discomfort changes to one of accepting that your child or teen will need to experience
natural consequences for his or her actions.
Most of the time, children can be successfully disciplined without the need for harsh punishment, but with
using natural consequences as the punishment.
But other than saving your kids from physical harm, you may want to
allow natural consequences of behavior to work their own magic without your intervention.
This way, you are helping them train up their own mobility, take responsibility for themselves,
learn natural consequences, and make your job easier.
The students
suffer natural consequences throughout the process, and assessment is based on collaboration, creativity, communication, and flexibility.
Warning: Don't rely
on natural consequences if the outcome is likely to hurt your child, or allow someone else to be hurt or treated unfairly in the process.
For instance, threatening drunk drivers with legal penalties supplements the discipline of
natural consequences rather than undermining it.
Teaching responsibility
by natural consequences is a technique used not only by successful parents, but also therapeutic boarding schools.
As a parent, you should absolutely take steps to hold him accountable: allow him to experience
natural consequences even if that means legal charges.
Natural consequences help people take responsibility, and they can be used to help kids take responsibility for things like going to school, participating in class and doing homework.
He is fearless, and as much as we
want natural consequences to encourage or discourage certain activities, he just doesn't grasp that certain things are dangerous.
In order to
avoid natural consequences, which can be very undesirable, teachers need to establish consequences for problem behaviors and infractions of school and classroom rules.
Wilderness programs may be more likely to fall into the category of relying
on natural consequences to teach kids in a very literal way.
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