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Secrets to child discipline |
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by surfingmama  (October 2006) (rank 500+) |
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How do you discipline a child? Do you scream and feel like pulling out all your hair? Or do you keep your cool and use your voice with authority?
When you child’s done something wrong, you need to communicate that fact with the Voice of Authority – Supernanny Jo
Frost. And according to her, there are 6 secrets to disciplining your child:
1. Go to your child. Don’t shout to her from halfway across the room.
2. Get down to her level so you don’t intimidate her with your height. Crouch on your heels so you can make direct eye contact with her. You’re not issuing commands from above that she can pretend to ignore.
3. Hold you child by the arms so he can’t run away or interrupt eye contact. Say, “Look at me, please” if he tries to turn away.
4. Don’t be threatening and don’t grit your teeth!
5. Adopt a low, firm tone. This isn’t a threatening, angry, belittling or bargaining tone. It’s a tone that tells the child you mean business. It communicates displeasure.
6. Tell her clearly, calmly and sternly what she’s done wrong. “Hitting people is not allowed! You don’t hit other people. I don’t want you to do it again, please.”
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