Your young child needs you to firmly set limits for his behavior. He needs your guidance to learn how to get along in the world. Setting limits and teaching young children to behave are skills you can learn. This publication will tell you some important things about helping young children learn to behave. The discipline you use to get your child to behave teaches her about herself and about her relationships to others.
Good discipline sets limits and rules and helps a child focus on how to follow the rules.
Good discipline doesn't punish a child for making mistakes. It teaches her what to do instead. Some people think discipline means spanking or yelling unkind words to make children suffer enough so that they will never do wrong again. Unfortunately, this kind of discipline teaches a young child the wrong things. It teaches him that the world is unpredictable and unsafe.