Discipline is a positive method, which teaches the child self-control and confidence. The way to positive discipline is motivation and encouragement, letting the child know the differences between good and bad. Positive discipline, as one of the methods used in parenting, requires time and patience. The method focuses on what the child is expected and permitted to do.
Positive discipline observes how the child behaves now and how the parents want him/her to behave in the future. Besides, positive discipline lets the child understand that he or she is responsible for his or her own behavior. One of the points is to allow the child behave independently, and respect others.
At the same time punishment remains one of the discipline methods. Punishment can be either physical (hitting, causing pain, etc.) or psychological (isolation, shaming, etc.) Such a method focuses on the past and gives no freedom of choice in the future. When punishment is in use, the person who punishes the child becomes responsible for child’s behavior, but not the child himself.
If you are too busy to train and discipline and control your children and enforce obedience, you are too busy! You're better off not to have any children or give them to somebody who knows how to take care of them, who knows how to train them in the nurture and admonition of the Lord and raise them in obedience and self-control, or at least parental control!
Our children are the future and we must preserve and protect the future. And if we don't take care of our children, preserve and protect and train them properly so that they are good little children who know how to behave, and are good examples and are good products of good parents, then we have wrecked the future.
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