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.
I suggest that ultimately this can be met by God, just as
a parent disciplines their child.
«At this time, the child should be orbiting around the husband and wife, while
the parents discipline the child and impart values,» said the child psychologist.
Many dogs have even been known to help
the parents discipline a child by herding the child into her room when she misbehaves!
When one
parent disciplines the children through harsh parenting — such as shouting or physical punishment — and gets no intervention from the other parent, it hints of tolerance and enabling.
If
parents discipline children by smacking, children are more likely to smack their brothers, sisters, friends — or even their parents.
How it works: The goal of parent training is to break the cycle and help
parents discipline their children more effectively.
Not exact matches
One of the problems being a
child is that you are subjected to the direction and
discipline of the
parent or
parents.
From then on and many years till now,
parents had to teach and
discipline their
children.
I'm always frustrated by the conflation of «spanking» with the idea of
discipline as if there is no other way to
parent a
child than hitting them.
My
parents were not spankers, and yet we were very well
disciplined children (for the most part...).
For decades, American evangelicals have fiercely fought any legal or cultural limits on
parents» «rights» to
discipline their
children.
I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the
Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack
Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged
parents not to spend too much time with their
children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack
children, which even, preposterously, gave
children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack
children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to
discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a
parent or carer to smack their
child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the
child and the nature of the smack.»
Many
parents believe that they will just be able to reason with their
children when they are older, so
discipline now is not needed.
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.
But when their
children are rebellious and disobedient, good
parents discipline.
Just like we talk to
parents about
disciplining and making clear the boundaries to their
children — it's the very same thing.
He also argues that
parents exercise certain «sole and inviolable» lawmaking powers over their
children in the areas of custody, care, upbringing,
discipline, and education, which the Supreme Court has acknowledged in many cases under the due - process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
In that world God was present, direct and inexorable; his messages to
parents were everywhere: from flour spilled on the floor (that
child needs more
discipline) to the tragic death of an infant (confirmation that God had better things in store for them, in another world).
Those
parents had a method, a
discipline for preparing their young for the world; they thought they knew how to transmit a system of meanings which would arm their
children for a wonderful Christian American Protestant future.
When I was a
child, had my school sought to
discipline me, my
parents would have assumed the school had good reason.
Congress identified the following purposes: the promotion of «self -
discipline and other prudent approaches to the problem of adolescent premarital sexual relations,» the promotion of adoption as an alternative for adolescent
parents, the development of new approaches to the delivery of care to pregnant teenage girls, and the support of research and demonstration projects «concerning the societal causes and consequences of adolescent premarital sexual relations, contraceptive use, pregnancy, and
child rearing.»
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.
Do we not do the same when we are
disciplined by our
parents as
children or by our employer when we call ourselves adults, don't we want to «get our own back» don't we relish it when they become ill or have an accident and we say «it serves them right» justice has been done.
Their book, To Train Up a
Child has sold hundreds of thousands of copies and, under the guise of «biblical
discipline,» encourages
parents to beat their
children into submission, withhold food, and hose them down outside when they soil themselves.
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 interes
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 interes
parents know and do well and are interested in.
This is a record of a
child, odd and difficult from birth, in the grip of senseless obsessions, controlling the family with rigid rules and prohibitions, tearing through the house as fast and destructive as a tornado, grunting instead of talking, unresponsive to his
parents» loving concern, their urging, coaxing, their vain attempts at
discipline, their anger and spanking.
It's precisely why we
discipline our own
children and why our
parents disciplined us: to save us from worse pain in the future.
Is a
parent a monster for having a
child when the
parent knows that the
child will not be perfect and will have to be taught and
disciplined (perhaps with the violence of a spanking).
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.
It is a
parent's responsibility to train and
discipline these things out of
child.
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.
(followed closely by: - «I have a personal relationship» with «God / Jesus» and - «If you are a good
parent, don't you
discipline your
children when they misbehave?»
Add to this the insight of the psychological
disciplines, which have confirmed many of the truths expressed in ancient mythology, the truths of rivalry and overt hostility that mark the
parent -
child relationship, particularly when the
child reaches maturity.
The natural disorder of
children expresses itself in the tyrannical will to power over others, and the conventional response of
parents is to subdue this desire with the
discipline of the traditional virtues.
The Welsh Government wants to remove the legal defence for
parents who use corporal punishment to
discipline children.
Speaking during News Hour he explained: «The
parents should be allowed some discretion in terms of the way in which they
discipline their
children.
So then the
child does not follow through and the
parent smacks him with a belt or a cane lightly — for
discipline purposes to teach the
child a lesson.
Convert what you said into another example where a
parent (mother or father) wishes to instill some education and
discipline into their naughty
child.
That lines up well with the Bible saying that the best
parents beat their helpless
children with rods for
discipline.
Parenting 101: Mums and dads share the VERY crafty ways they
discipline their
children - from using wifi...
I just wanted to point out that many
parents spank, not because they can not control their temper, but because they have thoughtfully decided that it is an effective way to
discipline their
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.
The
parents have put together a system that allows them to
discipline their
children, but also forces the
parent to stop and calm down as well.
New
parents worry that they need to «
discipline» their
child.
Discipline that is empathetic, loving and respectful strengthens that the connection between
parent and
child, while harsh or overly - punitive
discipline weakens the connection.
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.
Rachel's blog covers so many different topics, from taking care of ourselves as mamas during the tough times, how to
discipline our
children the right way, lots and lots of helpful
parenting advice and also guides on how to live a more organized and happy home life without going crazy.
Positive
discipline means getting beyond a
child's bad act and figuring out why the
child acted the way he or she did, said Adam Frank, a Takoma Park resident and co-leader of Takoma Attachment
Parenting.
Parents teach
discipline by example with loving guidance, natural and logical consequences, and talking with their
child about their expectations.