The Topic Is....Discipline

Discipline seems to be a topic that most parents are interested in and the number of hits that one gets when searching the web is overwelming and quite confusing. What site do you trust? There are many thought on discipline and I will discuss my thoughts on those in a future post, but there are some things that I think all parents need to know about your child's bad behavior first. Humans are attention seeking creatures for the most part, children are no different. They want attention. They don't really care if that attention is positive or negative, they just want attention. If we give them some positive attention, it may reduce the number of bad behaviors that they engage in to get our "negative" attention. Which in turn reduces the amount that you need to discipline. Some food for thought when discussing positive attention: in our always connected society, are we really giving our children our undivided attention or are we on the cell phone, sitting next to them watching TV, or talking to them while we are surfing the net, tweeting or texting at the same time. Consider taking time to just be with your child, turn off all your electronics and eliminate other distractions. Make sure to give each child individual attention whenever possible.