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Raising Generations
Does Your Discipline Style Affect Your Grandchildren? By Kim Byrum Skinner
The key to healthy discipline, experts believe, is to understand the difference between guidance and punishment. Healthy parenting, after all, is really just quality teaching.
"Punishing behavior is having those vague rules and expectations punishing a child for not knowing or meeting your standards when you haven't clearly or fairly communicated them," Bloir says. "Shaming our children isn't the best. Up until their teen years, children are already devastated enough whenever they don't meet our expectations. Kids aren't miniature adults. They honestly forget the rules or what they're not supposed to be doing. They're naturally interested in their surroundings and curious about how the world works, and they get into things they shouldn't. Having just a few simple, really important limits is always best."
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