EDUCATING WITH KINDNESS AND FIRMNESS
We will give you some tools related to Positive Discipline which can help you in your daily life.
Positive Discipline has a special place in the positive parenting movement.
In fact, this educational pedagogy is based on
Kindness AND Firmness
It is an approach that is
neither permissive nor punitive
but which will allow the child to develop
self-discipline, a sense of responsibility, independence and respect.
FIRMNESS
It is respecting
the structure,
oneself,
and the situation.
Not everything should be permitted !
Parents and educators should establish rules (and routines) that will allow the child to develop, and grow in a secure environment.
Children need structure in order to develop to grow up in a safe environment, to become responsible, to be respectful…
KINDNESS
It is respect for the child’s world.
By kindness, we mean respect, empathy, and connection.
Kindness does not mean giving in to a child demands, protecting them from all frustrations or disappointments, nor listening to them endlessly.
Being respectful of the child’s world means showing them that we have confidence in them, encouraging them, allowing them to feel capable, teaching them to respond appropriately to frustration, validating their emotions.
One does not go without the other!
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Author: Isabelle de Chateauvieux
