Parents can also use this to help guide their children. If your child must meet curfew to continue being allowed to date, this is negative reinforcement. If your child must have less than three missing homework assignments per grading period to continue her dancing lessons, this is also negative reinforcement. I think that we all are familiar with punishment. Any time you take something away as a result of something deemed inappropriate this is punishment.
Punishment is a negative response to a behavior.
Although severe punishment works better than almost anything does, we parents must be very careful that our punishment is not that severe. Punishment and discipline must be firm yes, but not terribly severe to be effective. We can instill a healthy self-esteem level without allowing our children to walk all over us. Good luck with all of your parenting endeavors. Learn about working with a child with special needs.