Child Discipline Made Easy

Child discipline can be made easy when we do it the right way.
Can we train a child to do the right thing? I'm sure many of you have heard of the bible verse that tells us to do just that. I guess the issue here is that kids learn what they live with.
So if we want to have a good impact on our children we need to be careful what we say and do.

It's as simple as that. Kids can see through hypocrisy and they aren't stupid.
Parents have a huge role to play in the raising of their kids.
It's scary really, because we have that huge responsibility and if we fail our kids we fail a whole generation. But there is good news.
It's never too late to change things.
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How do you act in the car when you have to stop at a traffic light? Do you get impatient? Your kids are watching you.

Whatever they see you do, they will repeat.
It is quite sad for the children sometimes.

I had a girl at my house today for afternoon tea.
I made Nutella sandwiches for a group of girls and one of them chewed the sandwich part and left all of her crusts. I couldn't believe it - the girl was 11 years old.
I said to her, "are you allowed to do that at your house?" She said "yes, mum usually lets me leave the crusts". I replied to her, "well, I paid for this food and at my house you need to eat what you take".

I negotiated with the girl that she would eat two crusts and put the two other in the rubbish bin. I couldn't blame the girl; her parents had let her away with this.

But I had several girls in my house that afternoon and I wanted to let these girls know what the boundaries were.

Next time that child comes back to my house I am sure she will eat her crusts, either that or not bother taking four sandwiches.

Can you see, parents, how we discipline our child impacts on them more than we can ever imagine? I'm not wanting to discourage anyone; I want to give you hope that you can start to make changes in the way you discipline, little by little.

And your kids will pick up on these changes. Four and a half years ago I had a change in my life.
I separated from my husband.
Many things changed in my life, things relating to the way I raised our children. I started to require of my kids some different things and it wasn't easy. But I persevered and now my kids know that there are "mum's rules" and "dad's rules".

That's just the way it is now.
And that's OK.
Kids are resilient and adapt well to change if you give them a chance. If you need to change something major in the way you deal with your kids, first sit down and talk to them.
Tell them what you are going to do.
Be fair.

Give them some warning, rather than just bombard them with big changes. Allow me to challenge every parent today to find just one thing.
One thing to work on and change for the better.
One thing that you know isn't the best example you could give to your kids.

One thing you can do differently that will impact your children and possibly their children as well.

Train up a child in the way they should go and when they are old they will not depart from it. And that's my take on child discipline.