On Disciplining Your Children
April 30, 2009 by Christine Gooding
Filed under Parenting
Our daughter will turn 12 years old next month. When she makes mistakes, we find that although time outs still work, it’s the taking away of a privilege or the use of a favorite gadget like her mobile phone, iPod or laptop that gets to her.
We only resort to time outs or taking away her privileges after we have given several verbal warnings to her. After each offense and once she has apologized, we do sit down and talk to her about what she did. We ask her if she knows why we got upset. We always have a ‘debrief’ after each ‘punishment’ as I don’t want her coming out confused on what happened or why she was asked to go to her time out corner or why a privilege was taken away from her.
I wonder what other parents do to discipline their children.
What disciplining tactics have you employed on your children that worked? Why did it work?
