This issue has come up alot in my head because I am 16 years old have a 2 year old neice who’s constantly in trouble even after she’s been disciplined. I take things from her, put her in the corner you name it. I’ve even spanked her a couple of times, and told her mother who does some of the same things I’ve done but to an extent because she’s the mother. But my question is what’s the point of discipline in a toddler when they have very little attention span, and don’t really know any better because they are so young? I want children of my own someday, and I just want to know because me personally I feel like it’s a bit waste of time since they really can’t discipline themselves at such a young age. So really what’s the point?
Well her mother knows I’ve only spanked her twice, but with my hand, I quit because it didn’t feel right smacking her like that. But her mom still spanks her, and she says that I shouldn’t hesitate. But there’s got to be some other ways instead of what I’ve been doing.
Maintaining Classroom Discipline (1947). Good and bad methods of disciplining inappropriate classsroom behavior. This was a very well made instructional movie for teachers. While there are new & different problems in the modern schools, the basic ideas of this film still holds. The opening messages are exactly what the best research on classroom behaviour tells us:
http://ShortWayTo.com/help-troubled-teens/