| Spoiling a child does not happen overnight. It usually | | | | To many people, parenting discipline often results in |
| involves a series of perpetual actions and events that | | | | punishment. However, parenting discipline is not just |
| parents set in place that leads to bad behavior and an | | | | about the end result. If parents can devise a reward |
| overly pampered child. Parenting websites and | | | | and punishment system consistently and that caters to |
| parenting guides will tell you that it is usually not so | | | | the child's level of understanding, the child slowly |
| much the fault of the child. No child is born spoilt. | | | | internalizes a moral compass to help guide him or her |
| However, it is usually within the parent's control that | | | | in decision-making. |
| determines what type of influence they want to | | | | Parenting discipline is a constant process and its goal is |
| expose their child to and also how clearly right and | | | | not to be a reward and punishment system. Ultimately, |
| wrong is defined for the child. | | | | the goal of it is to train your child to know, all by |
| Very often, busy parents who have to spend more | | | | themselves, what's right and what's wrong and to train |
| time at work tend to give in to their children's demands | | | | him or her to automatically know that. |
| due to the guilt of not spending enough time with them. | | | | It is never too late to enforce parenting discipline. |
| This is a major no-no in parenting law because even | | | | Parents need to sit down and decide what they want |
| though the solution is short term, it starts off the | | | | communicated to their kids. List down what actions |
| relationship of your child (if she or she is still young) and | | | | and behaviors you want to encourage. The decisions |
| this behavior leads onwards into their teenage life. | | | | you make today will very well play a huge part in |
| What you end up with is a kid who is demanding and | | | | determining what kind of a person your child grows up |
| knows that he can get you to do things for him using | | | | to become. |
| emotional blackmail. | | | | |