How To Cultivate A Discipline From Childhood

Self-discipline is a vital quality to have if you want to be successful in the things you attempt during life. What we often don’t realize, however, is that we learn the skills for self-discipline during childhood. Here are some ways that you can cultivate personal discipline from your childhood experiences. Take the carrot and stick approach As a child, you were no doubt rewarded for…

Ten Practices of Effective Discipline with Your Adolescent

The ultimate goal of parental discipline is to help adolescents develop sufficient self-discipline to manage themselves and their lives independently and well. 1. Clear rules are consistently supported. The teenager knows where parents stand because they keep standing in the same place. 2. Patient insistence is relentlessly applied. The teenager knows that if it’s important enough for parents to ask for, it’s important enough to…