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How can we treat children with respect? |
We can treat our children with respect by using discipline techniques that teach them self-control and responsibility.
How to Build The child's Self-Esteem:
- Show children that you like them by smiling at them, hugging them and speaking to them in a positive way.
- Read out loud together.
- Use positive reinforcement to encourage responsible behavior.
- Help them to learn responsibility by requiring them to complete tasks.
- Set aside a time each day to spend with each child individually.
- Help children to develop organizational skills by providing space for toys, books, schoolwork, etc.
- Help them to discover their own special gifts by letting them develop an interest in activities such as sports, music, dance, drama, etc.
- Encourage their independence.
Discipline Techniques that Work:
- Following through with what you say
- Being consistent
- Modeling, appropriate behavior
- Being firm yet kind/fair
- Clearly stating expectations before child has engaged in undesirable act
- Giving a child a choice only when you intend to accept that choice
- Making the child feel worthwhile, liked and successful
- Rewarding positive behavior and ignoring negative behavior (except when dangerous, destructive, or embarrassing)
- Removing child from the situation
- Providing consequence for misbehavior immediately after undesirable act is performed
- Providing when/then statements: "When you have...then you may..."
- Shaping non-existent behaviors
- Providing if /then statements: "If you have...then you may..."
- Abuse it/lose it
- Redirecting misbehavior
Discipline Techniques that Often Backfire:
- Spanking (The Respite Program does not condone, nor will it tolerate, any physical punishment of a child)
- Embarrassing
- Humiliating
- Taking away favored things
- Punishing psychologically
- Engaging in power struggles
- Rewarding misbehavior
- Giving in to undue commands
- Allowing child to manipulate adult
- Saying what you don't mean
- Expecting child to read your mind
- Allowing dangerous, destructive, embarrassing behavior to continue
- Repeating commands
- Pleading, begging
- Ordering
- Nagging
- Labeling
- Arguing
- Threatening
- Being vague
- Fussing
- Being inconsistent
- Losing your cool
- Making child feel guilty
- Assuming they "know better"
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