The disciplining of children is more than simply regulating them.
Many parents wrongly assume that discipline is the means they use to control their children.
Controlling the behaviour of children is not the fundamental intent of discipline. Control is better described as regulation. Regulation by itself is not discipline because by itself it is not formative. Excessive regulation represses the identity of the child, whereas discipline will include regulation, but only as another formative tool. Discipline is much more than just control.