I’ve been reading the book that I bought a few months back, How to Discipline Your Child without Shouting or Spanking, and I’ve learned some new insights from it. The most important insight of all is our goal of Discipline. What is our goal of discipline? Do we just want discipline children just so our lives will be much better and hassle free? Are we disciplining our children so, that our friends, relatives and teachers won’t have to complain? Or is our goal for discipline would be for our children to learn wrong and right and therefore grow up to be good and responsible adults? I would want the latter to be my own personal goal.

Once our goal is set aright then our methods will turn out to be different. If we discipline our children by injecting fear of punishment, chances are, they will only be good in front of us and secretly do ‘bad things’. So, I’ve learned that from the very start, we must try to let them understand what is right and wrong and the consequences of choosing the wrong thing i.e. hurting people’s feelings, destroying property and etc.

As I have a toddler and a preschooler now, I really want to try my best, with God’s grace in discipling them and let them be how God wants them to be.