How to Have a Disciplined Child
Posted: April 10, 2022
Discipline or better self-discipline is a great trait that most successful people rely on.
How do you get your child to be disciplined? That’s a better question than how to discipline a child.
Here are a few tips that just might get you started.
- Start early. Starting late can be a lot harder than if you start as soon as you realize there might be a problem.
- Take it slow. Adding new routines, and new rules can be a bit confusing to a child. One at a time until they understand and get it.
- Work on the environment first. An organized and clean environment goes a long way. In other words, everything has a place and there is a place for everything. This makes it easy to keep things clean and organized. It also removes a lot of distractions.
- Have firm rules. Explain the reason for them clearly, and the consequences for not following them. And of course, follow through with those consequences. Make sure the punishment is fair and fits the crime.
- Have a goal. If you don’t know where you want to be, well you’re going to end up somewhere it might as well be where you wanted to go.
- Get your child involved in activities that create or use discipline. Martial arts is my favorite but there are other activities that will work. If your child likes it and wants to participate, then they will stick to it which helps them with their own discipline.
- Encourage. Anytime you see your child demonstrating discipline you want to be sure to recognize it. The more you recognize what you want the more you are going to see it.
Have you noticed we have not dealt with the discipline of the child? We have found that if the environment in disciplined and there are clear rules and routines that in most cases the child becomes disciplined without us having to go any further.
This is just a little bit about discipline and just a place to start. Your own situation will need to be clearly looked at and your plan will need to be designed around your own issues and goals.
It really can be easy. I have seen kids change in a few weeks with proper guidance and support. You just need to know a few skills that have proven to work and then you need to implement them.
You don’t need to be a drill sergeant to help your child become disciplined. You just need to know how!
