How to teach obedience to your child without corporal punishment
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To teach obedience to your child without corporal punishment Depends upon the relationship that you share with your child. If you have always insisted on discipline in the house and have had your child follow a set routine, then chances are that you will not need to resort to spanking to instill discipline in your child. A firm word and a stern eye is usually enough in such cases. This is not to say that you have to run a concentration camp in your home but it is an universal truth that all children need and appreciate rules and regulations. Here are some ways to discipline a child without resorting to corporal punishment.
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A few suggestions
- Resolve not to spank your child ever even though you may have spanked them earlier. There is a difference between thinking that you will not spank them and actually doing it.
- Tell the child that you have decided never to resort to corporal punishment when disciplining it and also say sorry for doing it in the past. Let everyone else around you also know your decision so that they can also help you keep your word.
- Check out the many techniques that are there to discipline a child without raising your hand at him. The reward technique, the natural consequence technique and the positive discipline technique are some of the more popular ones that parents use.
- Natural consequence technique involves the child learning through experience how bad a thing is like leaving paints out in the rain while reward technique involves rewarding a child for good behavior.
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Do’s
- Be patient, like with most good learned behavior, the no spank techniques take time to take root and bear fruit.
- You could experiment with a combination of different techniques to deal with different situations.
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Don’ts
- Don’t use the natural consequence technique in dangerous situations like letting the child handle matches or play with a knife.