Raising
a positively disciplined child can require more of your patience.
But of course, parents should
positively discipline their child.
Not exact matches
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.
They will not respond
positively, leaving parents frustrated because old methods of
discipline that worked on them, don't work on their own
children.
First, fathers» interactive play during toddlerhood has been longitudinally associated with attachment security in later childhood and adolescence.17 Second, fathers» speech and language interactions with infants have been
positively associated with language development, and paternal depression has been shown to adversely impact this process.18, — , 20 Third,
discipline practices, such as corporal punishment, have been longitudinally associated with increased
child aggressive behavior.21 In addition, paternal depressive symptoms have been longitudinally associated with harsh paternal
discipline practices in older
children and subsequent
child and adolescent maladjustment.11 Finally, as an indicator of fathers» interactions with pediatric providers, we also examined the proportion of depressed fathers that reported talking with their
children's doctor within the previous year.
«A few studies have examined the utility of offering more intensive parent training interventions as universal supports to help parents get
positively involved with their
child's school, to reduce the use of punitive
discipline practices, and to increase the use of positive management strategies at home.