The important thing is to teach and set appropriate boundaries, and then have the child understand those boundaries. In fact when a child learns to impose his or her own control, there is less likelihood of harm coming to him, because he is able to self-monitor. The child understands the consequences of actions based on first hand experience. The principle works the same with a chained dog. If you control a dog by keeping him chained constantly, when you remove the hold, he will assuredly run away, and keep on running until he is lost.
Controlled children are the same.
Once given a moment of freedom, they get into the worst kind of mischief you can imagine. Nurturing parents understand that when they allow their child to learn from consequences, once the children grow to become adults, they will be more inclined to initiate activity and be creative. Or even allows him to play with the switch on the CD-ROM, turning it off and on again and again knowing that the short term inconvenience will have long term benefits. Readers' comments, click here. More articles by this author.