Positive Guidance

Positive Guidance and Discipline In Classrooms There is a difference in guidance and discipline. Discipline involves inculcateing and learning. It also comes from the root word disciple which gist a pupil, a follower, or a learner. Guidance is an attempt to change behavior by leading, curbing, teaching, and advising. still the 2 have a connection. The main goal for guidance is self-discipline. Once a fry achieves self- discipline, it depart increase his or her ability to learn new social skills.They are also given more(prenominal) opportunities to practice those skills on their own rather than having an adult solve every job or impinge that they have. Children and adults views on discipline are based on Past experiences, cultural values, lack of knowledge and original social values. Before we can take aim childrens behavior, we must understand the childs behavior. In my early childhood class we learned that there are two different graphic symbols of guidance direct guida nce and verificatory guidance. Direct guidance is verbal and physical techniques that are used to influence a childs behavior.Some examples of direct guidance are redirection, distraction, despotic reinforcement, encouraging, and limits. Direct guidance strategies give differ between age groups and even for individual children. Indirect Guidance is planning that influences the childs behavior. Example of indirect guidance strategies are planning, observation, room arrangement, modeling, and age appropriate equipment and materials. Neither direct nor indirect guidance includes punishment. Most negative punishment is unnecessary. It causes pain most of the cadence and it puts fear in the child.The child will probably grow up being scared of you and that will damage the relationship constantly and it would also block positive discipline. It makes the child resent the person who punish them. Punishment also weeping away a childs self-esteem and it offers no possible solutions or e xplanation to the problem. It makes a child feel like its ok to hurt individual you love. This may leads to problems like abuse, neglect and domesticated violence when they grow older. Instead of punishing a child for something they do wrong, try to redirect and guide them on the right thing hat they should be doing. Explain to them in a nice vocalism that what they are doing is wrong. Tell them how to fix it instead of yelling or spanking. Maybe even a time expose could be put into place precisely this should be used as a type of punishment either. It should be used for reflective purposes. When you send a child to time expose they should go off to the side to think about what they did that was wrong. Short time outs seem to work best. They should be two to three minutes long. Many people see the quick result of punishment and think it is stiff but it isnt.As we learned in class it just buts a band-aid on it but it doesnt fix the problem it just makes it worst. A reaction to punishment is anger. Most of the time children who are penalize who to get even. They get even by hitting opposites. Most people who often get punished are often bullies. They feel as though mamma and daddy take their anger out on me so Im going to take my anger out on someone thats smaller than me. This creates a major problem in the classroom. They call other children names, ruin other peoples work and take their things.When you come across a student like this, as a instructor, you cant punish him or her because it will cause even more damage. When mommy and daddy uses punishment at home they dont have to deal with the results but the teacher has to at school. Punishment focuses attention on what not to do rather than what to do. Thats why when we make rules charts in class we used positive words instead of negative words like no. Instead of enforcing rules of what not to do, rules should tell children what to do. For example if you want the children to walk inside, you will say we walk inside.Rules should be simple so children can understand and must be positive. Rules prepare children for a successful alive in the future. Having too few rules gives children make children think that they can do whatever they want to do. sometimes it terminates them to do power struggles and test the limits even harder to get their parents or teacher to use their authority. On the other hand, a great number of rules or being a strict parenting creates an bad relationship between parent and child and fosters feelings of resentment and rejection, which lowers a childs self-esteem.Besides, excessive control can provoke rebellion, not only toward the parents, but also against other authority figures. Although children may not like the rules, they merit to receive explanations for limits and expected consequences for breaking the rules. When a child hears a negative statement like, Dont throw the sand out the sandbox what the child really thinking is throw the sand out the sandbox, instead what you told them to do. If you do state a rule in the negative, like No hitting , but an positive statement with it.In conclusion it is way better to use positive words and positive discipline rather than negative punishment. Punishment causes shame, blame and pain and no one wants that. It would both returns you as the teacher or parent and the child. Negative discipline only puts a band-aid over the problem for short term results. The problem is not solved and eventually gets worst in most cases. present the time out to talk to the child and redirect and guide young children behavior because it will teach them how to act and solve their problems on their own the next time.