Discipline

 I choose to discipline my children really isn’t anyones business. But today I choose to talk about it in hopes it will help other parents struggling, wondering if they are doing the right thing by their kids.

Parents still to this day think that the best way to punish a child by doing anything that they think is remotely wrong in their book is by spanking them. What I think that you are doing is causing bodily harm to your child and possibly scarring them for life. You are teaching them that if they do something that they might not think is wrong but you do then they get physically harmed. As toddlers they see that. Why do you think that so many kids grow up and get in trouble for bullying, or little kids get in trouble for biting, or hitting? Its because  at home they are taught that causing bodily harm is a form of punishment that is a normal thing. Well I say it shouldn’t be so normalized. We need to do better. Why aren’t we teaching our children how to deal with their anger, sadness or just all of their emotions. Teaching them different ways to let it out without taking it out on the ones they are angry at.