How to Discipline Your Child

The reason for teaching discipline to children is to help them learn how to respect others and to express their needs and feelings in a socially acceptable manner. Providing discipline to your children as they are growing up helps them to become responsible adults. For any discipline method to be effective, it has to be appropriate for the child’s stage of development. A child, no matter what their age, isn’t able to complete a task that they are not developmentally ready to perform. Children of all ages need to receive a lot of praise, hugs, and smiles as positive reinforcement for doing the right things. A hug or a thank you is much more meaningful than a piece of candy or a toy.

Physical punishment is not an effective way of teaching discipline to your children. Hitting a child only teaches them that it’s okay to hit others when they are upset or angry. The best way to teach discipline is to practice what you teach and lead by example. Your children learn more by your actions rather than your words. If your current discipline method doesn’t seem to be working, try something different. The methods that worked when your children were toddlers, probably will not work when they are in elementary school. It is essential to remember that your role as a parent is to help your children to develop into adulthood, and their short term behavior is not nearly as important as how they will behave when they are 20 or 30. Your discipline should focus on correcting inappropriate behaviors and teaching them the acceptable behaviors.

Children need to learn discipline because it is not something that comes to them naturally. Parents have a responsibility to teach discipline to their children. Teaching discipline to your children takes a lot of patience and time. As children start learning self-control and socially acceptable behaviors, disciplining will become easier. It is important that children be taught discipline. They do not come out of the womb with it. Parents need to teach it to them along life’s patch. Teaching of discipline takes time and repetition but it gets less frustrating as children learn behavior control on their own. The best part is that the teaching of discipline does not have to do damage to either the kids or the parents. Discipline is creating limits and boundaries and redirecting inappropriate behavior. However, discipline is also positive reinforcement, encouragement, guidance and enhancing self esteem. Discipline also encourages children to think for themselves.

Always remember that teaching discipline to your children will help them to grow up to be happy, responsible and well respected adults. No one has ever said that raising children is easy, but as children begin to learn self-control and acceptable behaviors, the discipline does become easier. It is important to invest in your children’s emotional well being when they are young and you will be proud of the wonderful adults you have raised.

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Putting your child in musical education requires your involvement as parents. It does not mean that when you put your children in music schools, you’ll just leave them on their own. Your personal involvement will be a lot of help for your child’s personal development.

As parents you need to give your all out support to your child. Accompany them during their practice for the first months of their lessons. This can make them comfortable having you at their side. Aside from that, you can also help them develop self discipline to practice on their own.

Another way to boost the confidence within your child is to give positive feedback. Don’t discipline your child through punishment. Try to show passion and enthusiasm about everything that he or she does. Encourage your child in a positive way. Errors and failures may arise during practice, but this is normal. Everybody makes mistakes. Encourage them to go on despite their failures and mistakes.

Even though music can be fun, but it can be boring sometimes. There may come a time when your child may decide to quit. Music lessons can be tougher as they progress. There are many children who decide to quit after years of doing it and did not return to continue their lessons. If you really want your child to excel and you think he or she has the capabilities, don’t let your child quit. Children who quit rarely return to music lessons. Encourage your child and show your appreciation on what he or she had accomplished. Show them your trust and believe in them that they can reach their goals.

But if your child is really interested in what he or she is doing, quitting is not in their vocabulary. Just remember these simple tips about how you can show support to your child’s musical education. With your help, your child can achieve success and become a musical artist.

Believe it or not, I’m going to say, “Yes.”

Children lie. Sometimes they lie way more than we as parents would like them to. That’s because children want to avoid consequences and punishment when they do something wrong, or they’re simply trying to avoid some unpleasant task. That’s human nature, and it’s most evident in younger children.

It’s also one of the gravest concerns parents can have regarding their children, and what might result later in life if the pattern continues.

Now, let me qualify my initial comment that it’s okay to lie. We all tell lies that are meant to spare another person’s feelings, and your children should understand that fact. This is a form of “politeness,” or social grace, if you prefer, holding one’s tongue if nothing nice can be said and being completely honesty would prove injurious. And you and your children should continue to discuss the difference between being socially polite and being dishonest and disingenuous.

Now, what can parents do to correct outright lying and dishonesty? First of all, distinguish between your child’s playful imagination, which may invent people and stories for entertainment, but is not meant to be deceitful or injurious.

Two, examine your parenting style and what happens if and when your child is honest/dishonest with you, especially about matters that involve punishment. Consider which is more important to you: punishing your child for a mistake, or your child being able to come to you with any mistake, any problem, any issue without fear?

In addition to examining your own parenting style and the demands and pressures you may be placing on your children, also take into account the pressures that other authority figures (teachers, other parents, peers, etc.) can be putting on children.

If you do feel you have an inherently dishonest child, here are some steps to take:

- Role model, role model, role model.

- Establish your family’s philosophy about honest and dishonesty, including when it’s okay to not be completely honest.

- Make sure your children understand the difference between being a creative storyteller (fantasy) and life (reality).

- Establish when it’s okay to bend a rule (and the truth) to spare another person’s feelings.

- Praise the right behaviour. Discuss and explain the consequences of genuinely dishonest behaviour. And be consistent about both.

- Role play problem-solving techniques with your children. Remember, lying is often the result of avoiding problems, rather than facing them. By teaching your children this skill, it should make the need for lying disappear as they grow into adulthood.

Lastly, remember what it was like for you as a child and teenager. Remember your need for privacy and balance that with your need as a parent for trust in your children and their truthfulness.

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Getting children to eat is a problem you may encounter from an early age through even the teen years. In younger children, eating problems can be either simple food preferences or a power struggle.

If you feel it’s truly not a simple food preference, but is, in fact, your child stubbornly trying to control you, try to make certain a child doesn’t feel he/she can control you. Do this by making sure the child stays at the table until at least sampling the food you’ve prepared. Acceptable behavior may, then, result in a reward, such as a favorite dessert.

In the case of a simple food preference, we all know the situation: left to their own devices, our children would choose pizza, or macaroni-and-cheese, or French fries, or some other food product they crave three meals a day. Vegetables are probably something just short of toxic waste in the eyes of your kids, but you still want children to eat well-balanced, nutritionally sound meals.

Instead of simply banishing your child’s favorite foods from the menu, however, try sneaking in some healthy additives. According to one study, nearly 60 percent of children eat only one fruit or vegetable a day, but you can change that.

With pizza, for example, whether homemade or otherwise, add extra tomatoes, red peppers, broccoli, pineapple, and basil leaves. And, when making your own dough, try whole wheat as a healthier alternative.

For Mac-and-cheese, just mix in some vegetables such as carrots, broccoli and cauliflower. And by making them “stealth vegetables,” perhaps chopping or shredding them up so they can’t be as easily recognized, you’ve just given your fussy eaters a healthier meal.

With hot dogs, think whole wheat buns again. And think of serving them “Chicago style” – topped with things like onions, tomatoes, tomato slices, and peppers.

Spaghetti & meatballs is another kid favorite that you can doctor up with extra tomatoes (diced), along with chopped mushrooms and onions, and shredded carrots. All nicely hidden by some wonderful marinara sauce!

Whatever your child’s favorite, from grilled cheese to peanut butter and jelly, this should get your creative culinary and parenting skills brewing and your children eating healthier, more balanced meals. And it should make those dinner-time battles a thing of the past.

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All parents and educators know how open children can be to new learning and how receptive when interested. We also know how responsible we must be with respect to what we teach our children and allow them to absorb. When it comes to the values of meditation, we can be put off by the developmental facts of the limited attention span of young children, or their difficulty sitting still for more than a minute at a time. These characteristics often prevent us from seeing the wider potential of introducing a learning process to the young so that they can move, step by step, into a fuller comprehension of what spiritual centering is all about.

We can do this, even with young children, in a variety of ways. We can sit with them with eyes closed, asking them to place their hands over their hearts and to think about love or God. These are abstract concepts, and yet children know the words if the words are used by their parents with feeling and sincerity. They know the feeling of the words – the emotional state behind the words. This is true to the extent that parents and other adults have a commitment to living a spiritually centered life, and choose to speak of it in a language that can resonate with children as well.

Today, the long path of meditation which has been traversed by many for thousands of years, has a new companion which comes into being as a result of the greater presence of spiritual light on the Earth. This companion, called ‘alignment’, is like meditation in many respects, but can be practiced in short, focused moments throughout the day. Such a practice is more inclusive of the personality and embodied self than most traditional forms of meditation, and is founded on the understanding, initiated by light, that anyone, at any time, can now experience the realm of the Divine more directly and easily than ever before, merely through their intention to do so. The reaching out of heartfelt intentionality plus the discipline of regular efforts in this direction, can be met, today, with a sense of connection that would not have been possible before. The Practice of Alignment can bring to both children and adults a feeling of light, energy, and the presence of the Divine in an immediate and tactile way, because the distance between spiritual and physical reality has diminished as a result of light’s *********** of the physical plane.

Children can be taught this. They can be taught to reach out to God and light with their hearts. They may not have a word for what they feel as a result, but can learn to call it something like peacefulness, or love, or happiness, or God.

Even a moment of alignment, preceded by a sacred prayer and followed by a song or by a reading of something special that children can relate to, can be the foundation for a spiritual practice that grows and deepens as a child ages.

Even for those children who are unable to close their eyes or to sit still for more than a minute, the opportunity to share the feeling and desire of their parents to enter a sacred space is valuable, for they can feel the specialness of the moment, and it will remain as an internalized reality for them that may flower many years later.

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