Parenting and Discipline

When most people think of disciplining their children, they often think of some form of punishment such as spanking, grounding a child, or a loss of a privilege. We often forget as parents that we need to also pay attention to the "good" things that children and teens do in order to keep getting these results. This is known as "Praise". Think about it, would we continue to get up everyday and go to work if at the end of the week we don't receive a pay check. I highly doubt it! What if our boss only pointed out the negative things we did, how would we feel? Remember, what you pay attention to is what you get more of. If you pay more attention to the good things children do, then you will then get more of the good things. However, on the flip side if you only pay attention to the bad things and this is a way for a child to get attention, then they will continue to behave this way because it is still allowing them to get attention. After all, bad attention is better than no attention at all.