Teach through love and example
Discipline — Chris Green’s recommendations
® Start to introduce routines and good habits from an early age.
® Punishment is not for babies.
® Don’t expect a 10month old to behave like a mature adult. ® Feed the hungry, comfort the crier, lift the grumbler — that’s the teaching of today.
© Start to mould the behaviour from the end of the first year. Praise and reward the good behaviour, deliver a low-key response to the undesired.
®. If sleep problems are shattering your sanity and grizzling has you tearing your hair out forget all this philosophy and be as firm as is needed to keep the peace.
• Children thrive equally well on both strict and permissive discipline. What they can’t take is inconsistency, parental conflict, and not knowing where they stand. • In short, the best way to bring up children is first to get your own act together, then teach through love and example. If what you are doing feels right and works for you, do it!
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