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How Discipline To the right way

It’s an age-old issue: discipline. Today’s generation of parents may have been brought up under the parenting adage of ‘Spare the rod and spoil the child’, yet, or perhaps because of it, they wrangle with the task of sparing the rod and still not spoiling the child.

Do children require a set of rules to stick to? Is there a method a child learns to understand, so that he knows what lines not to cross, where to stop and when? How does one teach self-control to a tantrum-throwing child? Why doesn’t the form of discipline one uses on an eight-year-old work with a three-year old too? And what is discipline, indeed? Is it tolerating a tantrum or is it knowing how many tantrums to soothe away?

Perhaps it’s neither. Here are three individuals who deal with children in large numbers and deal with effective ways of providing opportunities for children to do things the right way:

DISCIPLINE WITH LOVE AND CAUTION

Dr Shwetambara Sabharwal, clinical psychologist, psychotherapist and director of the activity centre, MindCraft, believes that there are various therapies people can use to effectively parent and discipline their children.

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