Discipline

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Changes in Discipline

By

Robert Keplinger

English 141

Tiffin Univeristy

9/6/07

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In everyone's lives he or she has been affected by different types of discipline. As Holt (1972) described the different types, one stood out among all. Trial and error for me is a way of life. I make mistakes and then learn from them to become a better person. Therefore I think the most effective type of punishment is to be firm on your actions and don't eat your words. It may be tough to punish your, kids but someone needs to do it and it needs to come from you.

While interviewing my mother, her punishments were greatly affected by her actions and attitudes. When my mom was a child, she was disciplined by her parents the same way that she disciplined my brother and I. If she did something wrong, or got into trouble, her parents would find an appropriate punishment that suited her actions. Most of the time these would include timeouts, or the occasional spanking.

My mom wasn't a bad kid and either was I. Her parents rarely had to punish her, and when they did it was seldom. Her timeouts would typically consist of sitting in a chair, in the corner of a room, facing the wall for about 10 minutes. It would increase every time she got into trouble for the same thing or if her actions were more serious. My grandparent's were always very consistent on punishments and following through with them. They would never forget and rarely let my mom off with no punishment.

When I was a little kid my punishment was the same as it had been for my parents. They were very consistent on giving me timeouts or taking things away from me. When I was very little my mom would count to 3 and that would usually work, but as I grew older I started to test them. My parent's had to move on to bigger and better punishments. Most of the time I would get tv or computer time taken away in the evening/afternoon. That seemed to work for me because I would always shape up and not have too much of a problem following the rules.

When I have kids sometime in the future, I plan to discipline them the way my family disciplined me and to hold their actions to my words. Discipline is something that should not be taken

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lightly and should be a serious matter, just as John Holt (1972) pointed out in his passage "You do what I tell you or I'll make you wish you had" (p. 25). I don't totally agree with John and his statement 100%. While you should want your kids to listen to you all the time, they usually don't. Its something every parent goes through and the ones who succeed are the parents who discipline their kids with a punishment that fits the crime. When your child gets into the food without asking, you shouldn't ground him for a week, instead just take something away or send him to timeout. This is when parents have control over their kids actions and can take matters into their own hands.

Discipline is what people make it out to be. Some parents like mine, are great with following through and reasonable with their punishments. Parents