Discipline is a necessary part of parenting yet it makes most parents feel uncomfortable. Some of those old disciplinary phrases such as ‘spare the rod and spoil the child’, ‘teach them a lesson’ or ‘set children straight’ are enough to send shivers up the spine of any reasonable-minded parent.Discipline for the majority of the twentieth [...]
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Parenting Discipline – Teaching Children Self Respect, Self Control and Empathy
Posted by admin on March 17th, 2010
For many parents, the words parenting discipline have very negative connotations. There is the association with their own childhood and the often unpleasant memories that thinking of discipline raises. Then there is the association of the word discipline with ideas around corporal punishment, with spanking, hitting and hurting children.Some parents believe that the words parenting [...]
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