How to Discipline Children Reviews

I can't pretend that I'm the perfect parent because my daughter would be straight on here to tell you I'm not! However I can give you various tactics which may or may not help when discipling your children. Someone once said to me that however you choose to bring up your children is the right way. There's a lot of ...

I do not believe there is anything wrong with smacking a child. The problems occur when the person doing the discipline is inconsistent, or forgets they are dealing with a child. I don't believe a smack should hurt. I was smacked as a child, and I would cry, but that was because mum or dad was cross with me, not because I was hurt. The ...

Crime never reduces when a severe regime exists - therefore I cannot follow the logic of using physical punishment as a chastisement for children. I do not equate a slight tap on the back of the hand for a very young child with the "slipper" for an older child - as reasoning with a child who has no faculty for reason is not ...

As the mother of four adult children who were never smacked...nor might I add, "grounded"...and who have managed to go through life so far with a good attitude about their parents and the world around them, I can say with a certain authority that physical or emotional punishment is totally out of the question and teaches children all the ...

I believe that the best way to show children that you love them and care for them is to give them boundaries for them to work within because this makes them feel secure. I think that it is best to establish these boundaries between the ages of two and five and that the best way to reinforce these boundaries is to discipline the children ...

During the summer holiday I have worked in an opticians and we have had lots of children in over the holiday. Some of them are absolutely adorable and some of them are good as gold. Some of them, however have been absolutely awful. The other day we had an eight year old boy in with his parents and his behaviour and his attitude was appauling. ...

I am a father of two, a two and a half year old boy and a girl of thirteen months. As parents, we all know how close to the edge children can drive you. Being over tired and stressed with screaming kids that will not cooperate or behave does not always make you the most rational person around. Children learn from adults by copying and ...

You are big. The child is small. The child can't hit you back, so hey, why not, give the little bleeder a belt and he / she will probably shut up. After all, in all normal confrontations, people go round giving each other a smack to make a point don't they? No? So why is it all right to thump your kids? People tend to give up the ...

I left home at sixteen after suffering years of physical abuse, disguised as discipline. I believe the correct term would be grievous bodily harm. The more I was beaten, the less I cared. Events continued, and the very process that was supposed to keep me on the straight and narrow, turned me into an angry, depressed teenager hell bent ...

WARNING - BEFORE YOU READ THIS OPINION- PLEASE TAKE IN TO ACCOUNT THAT NO ABUSE OCCURRED, AND I SPEAK ONLY IN THE CONTEXT OF A LOVING ENVIRONMENT. I have two children aged 6 years old and 1 year old. I was always brought up to know that if you did wrong you got a smack. If this was administered by mum it wasn't too bad, but ...

My parents always instilled a sense of fair play in myself and my siblings. They taught us that violence of any nature was wrong under any circumstances, especially when against someone less able than yourself, and who in this world is less able to protect themselves above all others?......our children. Smacking children solves ...

How often do you hear parents (or even yourself!) saying "Don,t do that", followed seconds later by "I said, don't do that", then "I shan't tell you again...." ad nauseum while their little darlings run riot. Punishment - if required - should follow a warning - one warning only. Smacking teaches children that ...

I wasn't going to write here because I don't have children nor any useful experience of disciplining them. Then I remembered that I had experienced CP at school - and that it had had absolutely no effect at all. From the age of 14 to 16 I refused to do PE at school, so twice a week I was hauled off to the headmistress for the cane. ...

There are much more productive ways of disciplining older children, however younger children find things more difficult to understand. For example, I can’t say to my ten-month old son “don’t touch the electric socket because it will burn you” he will not understand. Instead a stern “no” and/or “hot” ...

What is discipline? to me discipline is understanding what is right and what is wrong. You cannot punch a child, nor should ever feel the need to, discipline should be approached as learning and understanding the difference between what is right and what is wrong, and that if you do wrong, you will be punished, not physically or mentally beaten. ...

Ok Ok I admit it, I have given my son the odd 'sangator', but only on occasion and when he was doing something either dangerous or destructive. However we believe that regular smacking can only give the kids the massage that problems can be sorted by a cuff round the ear. My wife and I are *slightly* divided on this - she hates ...

Unless beating a child results in hospital treatment it is nothing to with anyone else! I am a father and don't personally believe that hitting a child works. I have a lively 4 y/o who, quite naturally, pushes her luck from time to time. However, I have never had cause to hit her. My point though is that it is a dangerous ...

I can't do it. I have done it in rage and regretted it immiediatly. What does it teach? You musn't hit him, but I can hit you even though I'm twice your height? No sorry, it doesn't make sense to me. I have an Arien temper and know I hav to control that to deal with whatever situation. My Mum tells me I was smacked as a ...

The issue of smacking is a controversial one, some hold the opinion that smacking a child is a form of abuse, I believe that done in the right way it is a very good and effective form of discipline. I would emphasise the importance of smacking being done in the right way and by this I mean under proper control. A parent should know at all times ...

Children can be extremely hard work, I should know, I have four of them, and I have cared for many. At the moment of writing this, my oldest son who is 12 is throwing a major tantrum because he has been banned from having the playstation computer in his room because od the trouble and arguments caused with the other younger children. He ...