Disciplining your child is one of the hardest parts of being a parent. Of course you want to correct negative behaviors in the most productive way possible, but sometimes the words “military school” can sound pretty tempting. How can you be sure the way you discipline your child will produce a happy and healthy adult?
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Involve children in focusing on solutions through family meetings or joint problem-solving sessions. Another possibility is to help children explore the consequences of their choices through curiosity questions instead of imposing consequences (poorly disguised punishment) on them. What happened? What do you think caused that to happen? What ideas do you have to solve that problem? Instead of using punitive time-out, teach children to create their own self-soothing place where they can go when they are upset until they calm down because children do better when they feel better and can engage their rational brains—something they can’t do when upset.
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