DISCIPLINE WITH LOVE

Good day and happy weekend, amazing people of hive block chain, welcome back to my blog. It is another edition in the #hivelearners community, and I am so delighted to be participating in this week's prompt topic: parents and discipline.

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Our parents are role models; we look up to them. They play very vital roles in our lives; they are there to correct, provide for us, and also discipline us when we do something wrong. There is this popular saying, Train up a child in the way he or she should grow when they are old; they will not depart from it.

When it comes to disciplining a child, I believe that everything is all about physical punishment. You can also discipline a child with love and affection. Last week, when I was going to the market, you needed to see how this woman was flogging the child. I had to approach her to know why she was flogging the child with bitterness. I have to ask her if she is the mother of the child because she was too harsh with the punishment. So parents don’t know they have to discipline their child and think that everything is about physical punishment. The forgot that it will come a time when the child's body will get used to the physical punishment. At that point, they are not afraid of physical punishment again; their mindset will be, after all, the will punish. This has caused many kids to get involved in any bad behavior.

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During my own days as a kid, my parents made use of physical punishment. They see physical punishment as the only way to correct a child when he or she is wrong. I still have some scars on my body. Back then, I thought that my parents didn’t love me due to the physical punishment; it was giving me the wrong impression about my parents. As I grow up, I get to realize that all they did was for my own good.

Well, I’m not a mother yet, but staying with my elder sister, I have learnt a whole lot from her. My sister doesn’t believe in physical punishment; she believes that there are better ways to punish them. The aunt corrects her kids with love and affection; she corrects them and talks things out with them. It is very hard for her to punish them physically.

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Another way she disciplined them when they did something wrong is by giving them a hard task to do. When they remembered the task, they would behave well. My aunt tries her best to be more than a mother to her kids; she watches the kids closely and she is always ready to correct them.

From my elder sister, I get to understand that parenting comes with a lot of responsibilities, and discipline is one of them. I get to understand that disciplining a child is not about hitting; you can also correct your child with love. My aunt let me understand that she is like a mirror to her kids.

This is my response to the weekly prompts #hl-w140e3 topic parent and discipline.

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