Discipline is about promoting healthy habits and establishing limits that allow you to positively regulate your child’s behavior. In this teaching process, mom and dad need to “break many paradigms of their own upbringing. Are you ready to do it?
The first of these paradigms is believing that discipline requires yelling, name-calling, or even hitting. Also, avoid falling into the extreme of permissiveness, “where the authority figure is diluted and children grow up without a clear reference to concrete limits and without the basis for an ethic and morality in their behavior,” warns the expert in psychology. educational Alma Rosa Martínez.
Screaming and hitting are forms of violence that teach that generating fear and pain is one way to control behavior. In this sense, discipline is the quality that helps us achieve what we want in life, to get there without getting lost along the way.
Think that in matters of discipline you are not in front of your son fighting for power, but at his side, teaching him not to succumb to frustration; transmitting with love and security the rules that govern personal and social life that will help you manage in life.
LESS POWER, MORE LOVE
- Discipline is about understanding your child’s behavior and how to approach his attitude to guide him on his way always in an emotional way, but firm and respectful both for him and for you.
- To discipline you need a lot of communication, love, understanding and empathy; Obtain the tools to understand the behavior of your children (even when it is not appropriate) and know how to redirect it with respect, without power struggles.
- Effective discipline includes neither excessive control nor overbearing permissiveness. It is based on mutual respect between parents and children and collaboration, all with the intention of teaching your child basic skills for his life.