Ten Common Child Discipline Mistakes Fathers Make

The need for disciplining children is very important to parents. The goal is a change for the better. Children are meant to follow family rules, learn to be responsible and to keep to their commitments.

The following are mistakes that fathers mostly commit in disciplining.

1. Keep your temper under control. Do not discipline when you are angry. Children respond best to a calm person.
2. There should be consistency in disciplining for the same wrong activity. Otherwise, the child gets confused.
3. Physical discipline like spanking is not acceptable. In fact, it is ineffective. Use alternative child discipline skills. They work better.
4. Giving a reward for good behavior or promising one sends out a wrong message. The child thinks that it can act inappropriately at first, get the reward and then resort to good behavior. This is actually not so.
5. Both parents should be of the same mind when disciplining. Running to a lenient mother is taboo.
6. As a parent, your role is final. Do not get consent from the child for the discipline you impose.
7. Avoid lecturing. If a task is not done, find out why and tackle the cause. It would work better than a lecture to the child.
8. Avoid comparisons with another sibling or a peer. It only breeds resentment. To say that an older sister was better than the child in performing a task is unacceptable.
9. Make them obey rules or face consequences when they do not. This is true love.
10. Set limits and consequences together. That way the child knows what will follow if rules are not followed.

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Ten Common Child Discipline Mistakes Fathers Make
By Pauline Go