The role of discipline in raising responsible children

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What methods of discipline are okay to use on children? It varies for parents and they handle it differently. How do you go about disciplining children? Then, how do you go ahead to make sure that they don't attempt to default again? Please share with us”

The subject of discipline is one that a lot of people shy away from these days in the name of civilization and human rights, and this is not to downplay human rights in any form.

There's a portion in the Holy Bible that says, If you spare the rod, you spoil the child. In the same manner, there is another portion of the Bible that says, Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction drives it out.

I very much remember as a child there were offenses that I committed, and my dad would literally flog me, and there were some other offenses that when I commented, I would get so scared that I would be flogged, but in those times all I got was some words of chastisement, and I made a promise never to do such things again, which I actually kept to.

So when it comes to child discipline with respect to the times that we are in, it could take all forms provided that it doesn't result in some form of assault or abuse, as it were. The most important factor for me is that the message is clearly sent. I also have to say at this point that there are different methods that work for different kids.

While some just require talking, others might require being grounded, and others even to experience the consequences of their actions. In light of this, I recall my parents telling me how I could get burnt if I touched the old kerosene lamp, but every time it was lit, I would start touching and feeling it, and one day an older relative saw me and held his hand over my hand on top of that lamp until I started crying, yet I couldn't tell my parents because they had warned me about touching it.

When a child is well-behaved, they become the pride of their father, but when the behavior is bad, they become the pain of their mother. As much as parents love their children, a culture of discipline must be taught and disciplinary measures put in place to keep children in check because there's the old saying, Charity begins at home." More so if a child's activities are not checked when they are still correctable, when they misbehave outside the first point of call is their home. Don't forget, Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he's old, he will not depart from it.

In order to make a child never default and go back to something wrong, you need to, as a parent, study the personality of that child. For some children nowadays, you have to explain the consequences of such actions, and for others, a reward system could be set in order not to do something wrong. This method sometimes could be ineffective, as the child would only give in knowing that there's a reward, and sometimes you let them deal with the consequences of whatever mess they got themselves in. This is also dependent on how severe the consequences could be.

A parent's method of discipline would largely depend on the gravity of the offense committed and the child's

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