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Discipline as Encouragement
Composure: Living the values you want your child to develop. This teaches integrity. Encouragement: Honoring children so they will honor you. This teaches interdependence. Assertiveness: Saying no and being heard. This teaches respect. Choices: Building self-esteem and willpower. This teaches commitment. Positive Intent: Turning resistance into coo
... See moreRebecca Anne Bailey • Easy To Love, Difficult To Discipline: The 7 Basic Skills For Turning Conflict
Loving parents work hard to discipline without punishment. This does not mean that they never punish, only that when they do punish, they choose punishments like time-outs or the taking away of privileges. They focus on teaching children how to be self-disciplining and how to take responsibility for their actions.
bell hooks • All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation Book 1)
Though many people assume that discipline is the best way to help children behave better, co-regulation is the key to developing self-regulation, which results in better behaviors as the natural end product.
Mona Delahooke • Brain-Body Parenting: How to Stop Managing Behavior and Start Raising Joyful, Resilient Kids
Easy To Love, Difficult To Discipline: The 7 Basic Skills For Turning Conflict
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Parents have long been sold a model of childrearing that simply doesn’t work. From reward charts to time outs, many popular parenting approaches are based on shaping behavior, not raising humans. These techniques don’t build the skills kids need for life, or account for their complex emotional needs. Add to that parents’ complicated relationships w... See more
Becky Kennedy • Good Inside
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Teachers should be guides of the learning journey, not authoritative instructors ready to dish out abuse or punishment when the child expresses non-conforming behaviors.
Leyla Acaroglu • System Failures: The Education System and the Proliferation of Reductive Thinking
As parents and teachers, we can guide and occasionally discipline children with the motivation to help them develop qualities that will serve them well as they grow in life.
Thubten Chodron • An Open-Hearted Life: Transformative Methods for Compassionate Living from a Clinical Psychologist and a Buddhist Nun
When you start to view challenging behaviour not as naughtiness which needs training, punishing, or discipline, but as a problem to solve together, the dynamic of your parenting shifts