About this deal
This lets your child know what is really important to you and you don’t come across as if you are disciplining them for every little infraction. In life we will make mistakes, and manning up to them (being willing to accept them, and learn from them as well as take the earned consequences) is becoming a lost quality. They don’t have to agree with the discipline or even agree that they were in the wrong, but they should be told what rule they broke and why they are being punished. After all, “…children who spend more time responding to conflicts…spend more time thinking with their primitive brain (which is mostly autonomous) than their cerebral brain, (which is mostly wired for logic). Stay all night long every weekend as entertainment continues from 11-2AM on our second story Goose Nest.
You should feel confident enough in your disciplinary and parenting choices to not have critique from strangers perturb you.Spending time with your kids, especially time outside, will do wonders for your relationship which makes your word and opinion carry more weight. What if there’s something we need to know, like that our 4-year-old was jumping–uninvited–on the neighbor’s trampoline when she fell and broke her wrist? I'd interpret it as an unambiguous put-down of both the child and the parent, and almost as a physical threat to the child (the implicit "I would like to hit that child"/"That child deserves to be hit").
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