Disciplining Children: Methods and Ways

Most adults can recall being a kid. Laughing, playing, and not having any responsibilities or any worries. Times have changed since then and now being when we are in our adult years, there are far more accountability for our actions. Regulations and social demands that are expected out of us everyday. We learn to be better adults and citizens in an early age and in today’s children growing up in a new era of technology is one that is very difficult. No longer is it okay to discipline children by spanking, but parents and guardians have lost the courage to properly punish their children due to the fear of law officials and being sent to a penitentiary.
In today’s generation of parenting when a child behaves badly, the parent usually has a sit-down conservation and explains what he or she had done wrong. This is a horrible solution because most likely it’s going to occur again. Back in the days, there was no sit down and “lets talk like adults” conservation’s with a child, but instead the punishment would be harsher and unforgettable. Parents should be more assertive when disciplining their children that are in the ages of three to ten years of age. Most parents would disagree with this statement, but the misunderstanding comes from how society has detected how one should discipline their child. It’s not social to control our household and parenting.
Being a parent is a full time job with no breaks or time-offs and some single mothers and fathers have double duties. Parents have to understand that some children often misbehave and this usually comes from needy attention or at least be noticed. It’s harder for single mothers and fathers are having the toughest job in the world. "Children are going to get our attention one way or another, positive or negative," said Ivy Capps-Andress, therapist at the Southeast Alabama Child Advocacy Center. "Maybe they are seeking some one-on-one time with the parent {{7 Lee, Carla 2008}}." It still does not make it okay for some children to misbehave and for the parent to let little mistakes go by without a care, but instead these disobedience should be handled immediately by using effective punishments that will benefit both parent and child later down the road.
Raising our future doctors and even presidents is a hard work, which not a lot of people give them a hand clap for the job that being put in for everyday. There’s no reward, but the payoff is seeing a human being grow and become the person you dreamed of them being. If children are not taught in a younger age to behave around others and act appropriate in public at home then who is going to teach them what’s right and wrong when it’s too late.
There are different types of useful discipline methods. It does not mean that these methods are going to work with every child because each individual child is unique from the other. Of course, the most knowable punishment that does get ignored between parents aggressive techniques such as hitting or spanking, but let’s not forget that there are useful non-aggressive methods used by parents to discipline his or her children. Nevertheless, parent should always make time in their schedule to sit and give attention to children to prevent any further misbehaving. After all young or old, every human individual needs love and affection, let’s remember children are individuals.