If I could develop my own
APP, I'd call it
ALTERNATIVE
PARENTING
PROCEDURES. Too often, parents fall back into a comfortable mode of hitting, demeaning, and yelling at their children to get them to behave according to their expectations. Wouldn't it be great if parents could download a discipline APP? Here is a list of alternatives they would find there:
- Discuss the reason for the misbehavior and how the child can improve next time.
- Set up realistic logical consequences for misbehavior and then be consistent with them.
- Use humor to defuse a situation before talking about the source of the problem.
- Allow the natural consequences of the behavior take over - no parental action is necessary.
- Offer if-then options that don't involve ultimatums, which allow children to make their own good choices.
- Determine the severity of the misdemeanor. Let it go if it isn't critical. Just like too much sweetness, too much discipline is not healthy for a child's emotional intelligence.
- Redirect the bad behavior into something positive.
- Develop a system of rewards, whereby the children must earn them over time.
- Discover the underlying cause for the bad behavior.
- Love your children for who they are, but discipline what they do.
Happy Parenting!
If I could develop my own APP, I'd call it ALTERNATIVE PARENTING PROCEDURES. Too often, parents fall back into a comfortable mode of hitting, demeaning, and yelling at their children to get them to behave according to their expectations. Wouldn't it be great if parents could download a discipline APP? Here is a list of alternatives they would find there:
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