Sunday, April 27, 2008

Discipline your children from young

Discipline is very important if you want yourchildren to grow up to be a responsible person. Some people may say that it is not good psychologically for the child. You can allow him to think creatively but the child's behaviour must be guided from young. There is saying "Spare the rod and spoil the child". This is very true. If you let the child do what he wants and excede to his every demand from young it will be very difficult to teach him good behaviour later. Children are very smart and observant. They watch you all the time . They know your weaknesses. Out of love for the child you may be "telling " him you can do what you like. You can punish him when he does something wrong and teach him what is the right thing to do. Cane him if necessary. But after that shower your love for him to show that you punish him because he had done something wrong but not because you didn't like him. Tell him clearly the reason for the punishment. It is very important that you do not punish him because you were in a bad mood and he came at the wrong time. Many parents do just that.
Nowadays, with the availablity of television children may try to do what they saw on a TV show. A friend told me that when his grandson of about 10 years old was punished and the boy started packing up his clothes in his school bag and walked out of the house. His mother was worried but my friend told his daughter not to worry. He said " Let him go. He will come back in no time." He was imitating a character in the TV show. True enough he went out for a short while and turned back after realising that he will have to face many problems.
If you face the same problem with an older child it would be better to have a face to face talk with him and explain why he should not be doing the wrong that he is doing. But the main problem is that the parents had not spent quality time with their children right from their young age. May parents nowadays are too busy working extra hard to maintain the family and have neglected their children. No matter how busy they are responsible parents will reserve time perhaps a few times a week to spend quality time with their children.
Both the parents and the children will understand each other better and there will be less stress and heart pain in their attempt to guide the children. Think about it !

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