| Discipline is a skill. Everyone can develop this skill. It is | | | | gadget) that the toddler can damage. |
| easy for some, while it is next to impossible for others. | | | | If you shout before your kids, your 'don't shout' lessons |
| This is what discipline does. It forces or encourages | | | | have little meaning to your kids. He sees it is OK to |
| you to do what is required of you. It prevents or stops | | | | shout, as long as you are shouting at a weaker |
| you from doing any activity that is unnecessary, or | | | | person. |
| detrimental to your goals and desires. For example, it | | | | Be consistent in enforcing consequences. If you |
| takes discipline to stop overeating and to stay on | | | | enforce consequences one day and doesn't do so the |
| course of your weight loss goals. | | | | next day, it is confusing for your kids. It is bad parenting |
| With parenting discipline, you learn the skills of efficient | | | | discipline. You should enforce the consequence - |
| parenting. Child disciplining books may not give you the | | | | whatever it is, whenever your kid violates your rules or |
| accurate lessons. More than taking lessons, it takes | | | | limits. |
| discipline and self-confidence to follow the route of | | | | You may not get these lessons from child disciplining |
| parenting discipline. | | | | books. After all, our grandparents didn't read any child |
| If you smoke or drink before your kids, it is parenting | | | | disciplining books while they raised our parents. It can't |
| indiscipline. Similarly, if you leave your toddler | | | | be said about our parents though. |
| unattended, it is also not parenting discipline. You need | | | | Make child disciplining a natural part of your life. It is not |
| to provide a safe and relaxing environment for your | | | | to be pulled out when the need arises.It is the way of |
| kids. | | | | living. When the kids have some rules or limits, it is |
| Here are a few pointers that will help you: | | | | applicable for everyone at the home - at least while |
| If you have a toddler, make sure he/she doesn't have | | | | the kids are around. Then, it is good parenting discipline. |
| access to anything that can damage your toddler's | | | | It creates a hearty environment at your home. |
| health. Similarly, remove anything (say, an electronic | | | | |