In an article on 'The Basics of Child Development', I've come across a short write-up on 'How important is discipline?' and find it very useful, thus would like to share with all.
Discipline can be thought of as the daily training that parents provide by action, word, and example to shape their children's behavior. Its basic purpose is to steer a child away from dangerous and unacceptable behavior and toward self-control. Almost all research indicates that behavior is most effectively shaped by rewarding acceptable conduct and withholding rewards if conduct is unacceptable. Eventually, by developing (internalizing) self-rewards, children learn self-discipline. As opposed to this kind of active involvement by a child in creating its own behavior, punishment simply suppresses behavior.
By the time a child starts to crawl, parent are already shaping its behavior in many ways - for example, teaching compliance to safety rules. At the toddler stage, lessons in coping and social skills have to be learned. Discipline in middle childhood usually involves the child's work habits and moral standards. By adolescence, a child has normally acquired some measure of self-discipline.
Discipline can be thought of as the daily training that parents provide by action, word, and example to shape their children's behavior. Its basic purpose is to steer a child away from dangerous and unacceptable behavior and toward self-control. Almost all research indicates that behavior is most effectively shaped by rewarding acceptable conduct and withholding rewards if conduct is unacceptable. Eventually, by developing (internalizing) self-rewards, children learn self-discipline. As opposed to this kind of active involvement by a child in creating its own behavior, punishment simply suppresses behavior.
By the time a child starts to crawl, parent are already shaping its behavior in many ways - for example, teaching compliance to safety rules. At the toddler stage, lessons in coping and social skills have to be learned. Discipline in middle childhood usually involves the child's work habits and moral standards. By adolescence, a child has normally acquired some measure of self-discipline.
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