Discipline Dilemmas

Discipline Dilemmas

If you're a parent, you've likely been there done that and hope?not to go there again.

A constant challenge facing parents is figuring out the best way to discipline their children. A third of parents don’t think their methods of discipline are working very well, according to a study of 2,134 parents with children ages 2 to 11 in Canada, Puerto Rico and 32 states in the U.S.“I think if most parents are honest, the numbers would be even higher than that,” says the study’s author, Dr. Shari Barkin.

Barkin says she conducted the study to help parents and others who raise children do so more effectively. Discipline is an area where parents need and want a lot of help but get little.

Clinical psychologist Eric Herman says the greatest difficulty results because parents wait too late before trying to establish discipline. As soon as there is a problem, address it, he says...

Discussion Questions:

19. Why is “figuring out how to discipline their children” such a challenge for so many parents?In your opinion, would the SMILE strategy be effective? Why or why not?

20. How might discipline in the home relate to schoolroom or workplace discipline?Why might these techniques be effective? What are the disadvantages, if any, of using these techniques?


Note:

Dilemmas : a difficult choice has to be made between two different things you could do.