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Consistency In Discipline, Pat Steffens, Kathy Bosch

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Consistency in dealing with children’s behavior is recommended if you want to be an effective parent. Although no parent can expect to be perfectly consistent, some level of consistency is needed for children to learn the lessons of social life and feel self-assured. Children learn appropriate behavior easier when learning conditions remain constant. Parents should consider at least four aspects of consistent discipline.

Nf531 Parenting Your Child Effectively: Change Surroundings Instead Of Behavior, Marilyn Fox

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

This publication contains information about changing the surroundings instead of the behavior when parenting your children.

Nf96-311 Parent-Child Power Struggles: How To Handle Them, Herbert G. Lingren

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

This NebFact contains advice on dealing with power struggles with your children.

G93-1190 Positive Approach To Discipline, Patricia E. Steffens

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Disipline is not the same as punishment. Disipline is not what you do to the child, but what you do with and for the child.

There is no magic formula that will answer all disciplinary questions. Nor is there one perfect way to discipline. No method is going to work with every child or in every situation. What we can do is to commit ourselves to a positive approach in our discipline...one that includes respect, clearly defined expectations, setting limits, and using reasonable consequences.

A positive approach to discipline helps adults and children work together rather than against each other. …

G90-985 Discipline -- An Effective Life Guide, Herbert G. Lingren

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

There is no doubt that discipline is needed in families. Society could not exist if people acted without concern for others. Why, then, is there so much disagreement about this subject?

Parents often misunderstand and confuse the terms discipline and punishment. They see them as being the same thing but they are not. The dictionary defines discipline as "a system of rules governing conduct." It is "training that corrects, molds, or perfects." In contrast, punishment is defined as "retributive suffering, pain, loss, or penalty." The term discipline has its origin in the word "disciple" -- a follower who learns from …

G90-991 Parenting Your Child Effectively (Revised November 2003), Kathy Bosch, Herbert G. Lingren

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

This NebGuide contains guidelines to help parents interact with their children.

Parenting is both an action and an attitude! Being a parent is one of the hardest jobs you will have. One of the most difficult aspects of parenthood is the multitude of split-second decisions needed to guide and discipline children.

Although parenting is never easy, it becomes considerably more manageable when parents look at their attitudes about raising children. If they wish to change their parenting styles or improve discipline techniques, they need to begin by looking at how they "correct" their children's misbehavior and how they feel afterward.