Discipline
Parents: Children need consistent discipline. Discipline is not just punishment. It is about clear requirements set, encouraged, taught, rewarded, recognized, and when necessary enforced by punishments that make sense. The Bible asks us and our children to walk by faith not by sight but whether or not a child can make a good decision or a teen will break the rules rather than follow their parents teaching, is very often going to be a matter of reason. If they think it through and realize that what they're about to do has ramifications that they are not interested in facing they're likely to make a better choice. Starting to match methods of discipline as listed above when the child is as young as possible helps our children to draw direct connections between choices and ramifications. Just because a child should know better does not necessarily make the situation an extreme one. Even when they have done wrong they are watching you to see how you are handling it. If you gloss it over when you are having a good day and blow up about the same thing when you are having a bad day a certain reasoning will be fostered in them based on their personality and it will never be good. Christian parents who are living their faith in front of their children can be transparent about their mistakes which will help their children in decision making and perhaps even help them not make the same mistakes themselves .Don't overuse any one method on the list above and Don't let your mood or your circumstances control your choice of which method you use. Please, Find and follow life4Toledo podcast
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