to Discipline Your Child Katharine C. Kersey HOW TO BE GOOD
PARENTS AND TEACHERS into this world helpless and unable to
thrive without us. Our job is to love and nurture them and to
teach them how to live. means "to teach and train". We need to
be good disciplinarians, to acquire skills that will accomplish
the goal we set for ourselves - that of helping the child learn
to control and set standards for There are several ways we can
"make" children behave. One is by using force. Another is by
using fear. Still another is by punishment. Unfortunately, these
three methods imply that the caregiver is superior and should
overpower the child. Rather than leading to a child with inner
control, they make the child angry, resentful, fearful and
dependent upon There is another way to discipline children.
Though it may not appear to get the immediate results we might
like, it is safer, more natural and humanistic. It is based on
the assumption that children are by nature good, fair, and
honest and ultimately capable of