Should children be punished for their mistakes? Does foreign [Time-Out] work?

Parents of children aged 3-5 often face a very tangled question when their children make mistakes-should they punish their children? If children are punished, what is more appropriate? Is there anything what needs to pay attention to when using these methods? Never corporal punishment of children For corporal punishment, many parents know that it is not good, but more parents still hold the mentality of “beating when necessary”. First of all, corporal punishment is a kind of punishment with low efficiency and high cost, which cannot be equated with the punishment to be mentioned in this article. Secondly, the purpose of punishment is to make children understand the rules and recognize mistakes, but corporal punishment will make children repeat it Read More …

The Third Mistake of Good Mothers: Labeling Children

Criticizing education is one of the most inevitable problems in daily family education. However, sometimes, parents’ casual words are likely to have a great impact on their children. How to criticize education so as not to hurt children or even have the opposite effect? Labeling has no effect and side effects. Labeled critical discourse is the most common in daily life, and the typical ones are:

The second misconception of a good mother: regarding love as education

At the parents’ meeting every semester, some parents will use such words as the final reply to me when discussing their children’s problems with me: at this time, their faces are always hung with expressions of expectation and some helplessness. My mood is very complicated about this. Should I tell the parents the truth or let them continue to hold such expectations [waiting]? [Waiting] Is a Wrong Expectation I first heard similar words when discussing the child’s problems with a mother. The situation was that the child made a mistake and was criticized by the head teacher. Parents feel that although the fault lies with their children, But [not at this point], It is wrong for the head teacher to Read More …