University of California -- Spanish Broadcast and Media Services
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guidance and discipline are not always easy for most parents.
Sometimes parents don't know what is best to do.
Discipline
is a way to correct and to teach children. It needs to
make sense to them. It must help them feel good about
themselves. It needs to give them a chance to correct
their mistakes. Guidance is not punishment. Punishment
only tells children that they are bad. For instance,spanking
your children doesn't teach them what they should do.
It may teach them that it is all right to hit people.
Have
a few simple rules, make sure your children understand
them, and stick to them. Explain what will happen if
they break a rule.
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Try to keep calm when disciplining your children. If you find yourself getting angry at your children, take time out.
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your children's good behavior.Take time to put your
affection into words.
Tell
your children what to do, rather than what NOT to do.
Change
the situation whenever possible rather than trying to
change your children's behavior.
Talk
instead of hitting your children. Physical punishment
like spanking can make children feel that they are bad
people.Your children will only earn to be afraid of you
or to hit others.
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The guidance
that works best is fair, consistent, sensitive and loving.
Disclaimer
and Reproduction Information: Information in NASD does not represent
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NASD Review: 04/2002
This material
is based upon work supported by the Extension Service, U.S.
Department of Agriculture, under special project number
91-ESPN-1-5169
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System Produced
by the University of California's Spanish Broadcast and Media
Services, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Myriam
Grajales-Hall, coordinator.
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