Discipline is made with the idea of control the way a person might control the reins of a horse. As parents it is so easy to punish a child, especially when we are tired and pushed to our limit. We may take out our frustrations in spanking the child. The sign for discipline illustrates self-control.
True discipline is to teach the child the really great principles of life.
We need to emphasize what is positive and what is right . Your little girl comes to you with her precious, but broken and dirty doll. You do not tell her all the bad things about the doll. If you tell her you are going to take her doll away, she may hug the doll tighter. Say nothing about her old doll, but give her a box with a fabulous talking doll.