Practice 21: Positive Disciplining

Make sure that children are brought up with warmth, care, kind words, gentle guidance and positive discipline from parents and family members.

• Ask them what they do when the child does something wrong or annoys them?
• Ask how children are disciplined in the family.
• Ask why they use that form of discipline?

• Acknowledge the use of positive discipline methods and appreciate parents who speak to their children with kind words.
• Discuss why parents may use the methods of discipline they mentioned.
• Discuss the effect of such methods on children.

• Explain what positive discipline is and provide examples of the methods.
• Explain to them the benefits of positive discipline and the use of positive words on children’s development.

• Corporal Punishment/Physical Abuse:
  • Positive discipline helps a child learn self-control and with that comes self-esteem and confidence.
  • Rather than use corporal punishment to discipline the children, let us use positive discipline.
  • Positive discipline is a non-violent, continuous and consistent process of guiding a child to behave in a manner that is acceptable.
  • Positive discipline is about teaching children right from wrong, including setting limits and following through with a child.
• Verbal Abuse:
  • Parents who tell their children that they are dumb, bad etc raise children to think they are those things and they act as such.
  • Verbal abuse causes children to feel afraid and less confident.
  • Verbal abuse affects the emotions of children and also leads to health problems of children.
  • Let's build our children up with our words, even when they make mistakes.
• Let us correct our children with patience.
• Let us correct our children without hurting them.
• There is always another way to correct a child.