As your child grows and changes, the way you guide your child should change, too. The ability to think and reason improves. Children are able to make better decisions. They can perform more complex tasks, and they can be more responsible. Children become interested in groups, boy-girl relationships.
Children become able to understand the feelings of others.
Guiding and disciplining children in the right way and at the right time shows children Parents love them. Parents want them to be happy, responsible, and caring. Parents want them to learn. Children learn by watching others and by what makes them feel good, what gets them attention, and through the love they get from others. Age makes a difference in how a child needs to be guided and disciplined.