Discipline and important tools every parent need

Good day and happy amazing people of hive block chain welcome back to my blog. It is another edition in the #hiveghana community, and I am so delighted to be participating in this week's prompt topic: When discipline comes across this topic, a lot of questions have been running through my head, like, Are parents really playing their roles well in the lives of their children? What is the best way to discipline a child?

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There is this popular saying that trains up a child in the way she should grow, and when they are old they will not depart from it. I will give the credit to African women when it comes to giving their children the best training. An African woman believes so much in one's child that if a child did something that is wrong, such a child will be disciplined according to the offence the child committed. If you fail to discipline the child, such a child will not know that what he or she did is wrong. Discipline is one of the tools every parent needs to train up their child well.

What is the best way to discipline a child?

This is very common in Africa. As far as you have an African parent, you experience corporal punishment. They always think that this is the best way to correct or discipline a child. Back then, one’s do anything wrong; just prepare your mind that day will really be a terrible day for you. I so much late this corporal punishment because it is some pain most times when you look at your body you will see bruises in your body back then i always ask myself I am sure that this people are my parents because the way the flog me always make me to wonder if truly they are my parents. This measure really disciplined me because I don’t like my parents flogging me at a point where I have to sit down to avoid their cane because the pain is so much for me to bear.

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At first, I thought that corporal punishment was the only way to discipline a child, but leaving with my aunty, I have come to know that everything is most likely corporal punishment. I will not say that my aunty doesn’t flog her kids, but it is very hard for her to flog her kids. My aunty so much believes in correcting them with words. If one’s the kids did something wrong, she will call them and sit them and make them see reasons why they should not repeat such a character. Most times she backs it up with a story that will but fear in them one thing about kids: whatever you tell them, they believe you. Because they trust their parents.

Another way my aunty disciplined her kid is by denying them the things that they love doing. There is no child that doesn’t have one thing that they enjoy doing when it comes to aunty kids, the love cartoons, so if they do anything wrong, their mom will deny them from seeing cartoons, and then they will realise that they have done something wrong. My aunty made me realise that hitting a child is not the best way to discipline a child. I got to understand from my aunty that kids are treated with love and care; everything most likely is corporal punishment. Communicating with that kid and denying them what the value is so much is another way of disciplining a kid. I tell my aunty one day she prefers words disciplined to corporal punishment; her answer was there will be a time you will be beating a child, and the child will get used to beating. Which is not a good idea.

I will not like my kids to be in pain. I think I will go with my aunty method; it really works for her.

This is my entry on the weekly prompt #hiveghana.

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