Discipline is one of the most misunderstood terms. Parents caring for their dependents will have to quickly come across an often underdeveloped and mostly misguided definition of the term. The Ministry of Discipline, an online campaign for parents and caregivers, was thus formed to develop parents’ theoretical understanding of the term ‘discipline’ and to offer a more positive definition of the term.
For the most part, the concept of discipline is based on a popular view of what happens during military training. Military discipline is understood as a sensible approach to physical fitness, conformity, proper behavior, and relates in some way to the delivery of a clean uniform. From the application of this discipline comes a soldier who can take orders and who outwardly appears to be more in control of himself.
People who are not exposed to military knowledge have to jump to extrapolate a framework for the term. His interpretation is influenced by a number of factors: the concept of harsh military training, his own cultural perspective, and his personal experiences; mostly assuming that discipline is equated with physical punishment.
This discipline-as-punishment approach is used to elicit compliance from young children. If the child does something that she does not comply with, discipline is imposed to prevent the child from doing whatever she is doing and to encourage him to behave in a more compliant manner. This is a simple transaction and it is not very difficult to understand: wrong action meets physical discomfort, reduction of discomfort occurs when correct action is observed.
Punishment also known as ‘corporal punishment’ (unrelated to the military analogy) can take many forms. Includes, but is not limited to, hitting with an open hand, hitting with an implement, pulling ears, pulling hair, shaking, squeezing, pinching, hitting, kicking, burning, cutting, choking, small joint manipulation, activation of pressure points or any form of deprivation of liberty.
It is this idea of ’discipline as punishment’ that helped create the Ministry of Discipline and its premise that discipline should truly be a parenting effort, that parents have alternatives to using corporal punishment, and that all people They have a responsibility to promote this campaign for positive results within all families.
Encouraging discipline is not a reactive tactic applied to a ‘naughty’ child. Raising a child requires that parents surround the child with a safe environment that encourages positive behavior, set clear limits on what is expected of the child, apply a consistent framework of incentives or disincentives, and ensure that the child always be treated. Respectfully.
Certainly, action and consequence will continue to be an ongoing tactic to guide the child toward expected behavior, but this is applied as part of the overall approach to parenting discipline. The following is a list of possible consequences that may work in a nursing discipline program:
positive behavior
1. Reward for increasing positive behavior, such as giving the child a compliment, giving a monetary incentive, creating a certificate of merit, or arranging their favorite food for dinner.
2. Reducing punitive measures to increase positive behavior, such as presenting a cautiously applied ‘get out of jail’ card that can be used to skip unpleasant tasks or daily practice on a musical instrument.
negative behavior
1. Punitive measures to reduce negative behavior, such as removing the privilege of hot showers, imposing a monetary fine, recording poor performance on specific measurement indices, or removing a prized toy for a specified period of time.
2. Reducing punitive measures to decrease negative behavior gives the child a more specific incentive if he or she complies by a certain time, for example, running through a restaurant might meet a parent starting with the child’s dessert; the sooner the child returns to the table, the more dessert he has left.
Parenting discipline has no set guideline to clarify what incentives or disincentives may work for your child. Each parent and caregiver will need to assess their own circumstance and tailor a program to meet their needs. This is the difficulty of the nursing discipline; it’s not just a quick fix, but a lifestyle choice.