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Discipline - now there's a loaded word. I'm not going to get into the methods you choose for administering consequences; many people have strong feelings about spanking, time-outs, and so forth, and you get to make your own decisions about those. Punishment, however, is not the same thing as discipline. Some form of punishment is often the outcome of a child's misbehavior, but discipline looks at the whole spectrum of teaching children how to act (and how not to act).
All of your behavior teaches lessons to your children, so it's important to give some thought to what you most want your kids to learn. What do you want to teach your children about how to act? You guide their actions and choices through the boundaries you establish, and by your positive or negative responses to their behavior in different situations.
The flip side of this is the possibility of teaching lessons that are both unintentional and undesirable:
* Imagine that you're in the supermarket, and your child...
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