Disciplining Children in my Club (How to Discipline Children)

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Product:	How to Discipline Children
Date:	18/01/04 (89 review reads)
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Advantages: Teaches Self-Control

Disadvantages: How Much Is Too Much?

Through many years of working with children, I have noticed that there is not just one way of encouraging good behaviour within discipline measures. What works with one child, will not work with the next.

It is a common known fact that most children under the age of 11 just want to play, talk and make new friends rather than learn how to control themselves in mind, body and spirit. Here’s the problem… How would you get an 8-year-old child to stop interrupting the training classes and get some work done? There is not one correct answer for this question. Just like in maturity, children also have very individual personalities, and respond to discipline acts differently.

I must admit, I have tried many different techniques in sending out the message to my students in class, but the one I have found to work best is bribery. It sounds really bad when you narrow it down to just that word, but I use various bribes!

I can remember one class, a few students where out of control and slightly hyperactive, causing other students to lose concentration. Instead of circling out the three juniors, I sat the whole class down and made them all an offer. I basically put to them that if they done as they were told; continued with their syllabuses and did not disrupt the class for the rest of the night I would take my pet bird in the following week. This worked nicely. Although I like this method of discipline, it is straying too far from the lifestyles of the Hung Gar system, and I really don’t want to use this method.

Another technique is threats. This works perfectly with the students, but due to their ages I really do not want to use this at all. It always comes down to the three same students disrupting the class, and I pull them to one side and threaten to degrade them if their attitudes and messing continues. I really dislike doing this, but it seems to get through to them.

I suppose my reason for this article is to
try to find some new techniques of discipline, and to try them out (if needed) within my training class.

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