parental discipline
Correcting young behavior
Parental discipline is the methods parents use to correct, guide, and control their children's behavior.
The phrase encompasses everything from time-outs and privilege removal to corporal punishment, depending on family and cultural norms.
Discussions of parental discipline often center on where appropriate correction ends and abuse begins: The court had to determine whether this was parental discipline or child abuse.
- punishmentPenalty for an offense
- timeoutBrief suspension of play
- spankingStriking the buttocks
- groundingConnecting to earth
- consequencesResults of actions taken
rules · house rules · boundaries · stern · scolding · obedience · chores · allowance · curfew · early bedtime · lecture · firm · tough love · correction · behavior · tantrum · defiance · household
- legal defensesself-defense, alibi, affirmative defense, insanity defense, insanity
parental disciplinepermissiveness
Tolerance of behavior others forbid
permissive parenting · leniency · hands-off parenting · free-range parenting · overindulgence
parental disciplineparental neglect
Failing to care for dependents
neglect · child neglect · abandonment · disengagement · child abandonment
parental disciplineindulgence
Yielding to desire
spoiling · overindulgence · coddling · pampering · giving in
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