TOPIC: Discipline
Common Discipline Mistakes Even the Best Parents Make: Part 2
Here are more discipline mistakes made by even the best-intending, most well-informed parents, along with practical suggestions that might come in handy the next time you find yourself in one of these situations.
Ask Hal - Kids and Advertising
You cannot fully protect them from the media onslaught because it is exactly that. Take heart though, for while you can’t fully protect or shelter them, you can equip them. You have the power to teach them to face and navigate the barrage of advertisements they are sure to see in their lives.
Common Discipline Mistakes Even the Best Parents Make: Part 1
Because we’re always parenting our children, it takes real effort to look at our discipline strategies objectively. Good intentions can become less-than-effective habits quickly, and that can leave us operating blindly, disciplining in ways we might not if we thought much about it. Here are some parenting mistakes made by even the best-intentioned, most well-informed parents, along with practical suggestions that might come in handy the next time you find yourself in one of these situations.
Ask Hal - A Battle with a Five-Year-Old
Dear Hal,
My 5 yr old son has been mouthy and he won’t listen. His teacher is having the same problem. If we ground him to his room, he peels the paint on the sheetrock off the walls. We don’t know what else we can do.
Ask Hal - Getting in Trouble at School
My daughter 7 has been getting in trouble in school. Either being too aggressive with the other children, or taking things, or hiding things from other children. When she is confronted by the teacher or assistant principal, she denies it. Even though it is quite obvious that she had done the offense. I cannot use the strategy that this is her business and she will receive the natural consequences, because the school calls me to handle it. I talk to my daughter but it is in one ear and out the next. Otherwise, academically she is doing great. I try to tell her that getting 100s is not everything; you must behave. She is bigger than most of the girls in her class and I want to prevent her from turning into a bully.
