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Best Way to Discipline My Child

by Avinash Mittal Blogger

We all want our children to be the best-behaved always, but that needs a lot of teaching and self-learning. Nonetheless, discipline is an extremely important factor in life and should be taught from an early age. Here are some of the strategies you can follow in order to practice child discipline

1.    Show And Make Them Learn: The best way to teach your children is by showing them what is correct and what is wrong. Dictating and words can be simpler to understand but difficult to follow. Thus, don’t just teach your children good deeds but also show them how good deeds are done. This is one of the easiest and most persistent ways to discipline your children. Make them learn the wrong things with calm and patience. Be a role model for your children while being soft-spoken and loving at the same time. These are the best techniques for child discipline and parenting

2.    Show and Give Consequences: No child is good all the time. They might end up behaving bad and doing things that you might not like. How you act as a parent in such situations matters a lot in the development of your child. Keep your calm and firmly explain your children about the consequences if they don’t behave correctly. For example, if your girl does not pick her toys up, tell her that her toys will be put away from her for the rest of the day. Also, be prepared to follow up with this. Don’t melt away and give her the toys minutes later. This doesnt mean you have to be a strict parent, just that you have to make your kids understand the consequences

3.    Listening Is The Key To Good Parenting: Listening is the answer to most of the problems. It is also the best way of setting discipline for children. Let your kid finish the story. Give them the space to explain themselves. Let them talk all out about the problems before suggesting the solution. Watch out for the misbehaviour and see if there is a pattern. Talk it out with your child on a one-to-one basis and tell them the importance of discipline in life. Listening to your child also makes them feel heard and helps them grow positively 

4.    Appreciate Them And Give Recognition: As important it is for you to correct the misbehaviour of your child, it is equally important to appreciate and reward them. Catch your children being good. When you notice their good behaviour, make it a point to point it out and praise them for the same. Good parenting is all about this. You need to praise your children for doing more good deeds in the future. For example, tell them that they did a great job finishing lunch at school

5.    Set The Limits Right: Good parenting also includes setting rules and following them. Have consistent and clear expectations and rules for your children. This is one of the best ways for practising child discipline. When you abide by the rules, it gives your children a sense of direction and how things are supposed to be carried out in the household. Set the rules for your children and also explain to them the reasons for the same. This teaches them the meaning of discipline from an early age and helps them grow positively

6.    The Art of Responding: Know when you should respond and when you shouldn’t. As your child grows older, they might not need your guidance as much. If you continue to follow the same steps that you were while they were younger, your children might take it as uncalled for and interference. Till the time your child is not doing something dangerous and is getting all the attention for their good behaviour, ignoring bad behaviour could be an effective way of stopping it. This also teaches your children the natural consequences of their actions. For example, if your little munchkin keeps all his toys at different places in the house, he will soon have no toys to play with. If he keeps dropping his cookies, he will have no cookies left. It will not be long before he learns to take care of his toys and not drop the cookies

7.    There’s Always Going to Be Trouble: You have to make friends with the fact that there is always going to be trouble. Your child might end up doing things you don’t very much like, and good parenting and child discipline is taking and teaching them out of doing those things. You need to be ready to face trouble. Plan ahead of such situations when your child might face some trouble behaving himself/herself. Prepare them well in advance for the upcoming activities and show them how you’d want them to behave, both by actions and words. This is one of the crucial points in understanding discipline for children

 


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