Teaching your child discipline is essential. Life today has become very competitive and discipline is mandatory for success. It is often observed that successful people attribute their achievements to discipline and practice. Even practice requires discipline!
Teaching your child about the importance of discipline at a young age will help him a lot in the future.
Importance of discipline:
To be disciplined is to be systematic and do things on time. Being disciplined teaches your child to assign time periods for specific chores. More than anything else, discipline makes him realize the value of time. Teaching your child to be disciplined early is important because once they are in their teenage years, it can be difficult for them to suddenly adapt to a time-table, face deadlines or be punctual. Lot of teenagers who struggle because they cannot manage their time well. This is due to the lack of discipline in their early years.
Lacking discipline is often a cause for disappointment.
For example, if your child does not follow a time-table and study when he should, he will score poorly in his exams. Discipline will teach him to finish his projects on time so that he has time for revision. Even in sports, regular practice can make all the difference as he will be more successful this way.
How to discipline my children?
Teach your child discipline by showing him the advantages of being disciplined. Explain to him in different ways how discipline actually makes his life simpler. For example, if he keeps his toys in one place after play, it will make it easier for him to locate it the next time he wants to play. Similarly, studying in advance will make it less stressful when the exams come around.
Explain each task you ask your child to do. Saying things like 'Because I said so!' will only make him dislike the task more. Explaining how it will benefit him, will make him disciplined in other areas of his life as well. As time passes, he will realize by himself how important discipline is and how many positive qualities it brings to his life.
Never be overzealous about disciplining your child. A child learns slowly and you should not get impatient with him. Keep trying to ingrain discipline in him but slowly and steadily. It may be a few years before he starts practicing discipline of his own accord.
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This way, you can teach your child to be disciplined. It may take some time but the outcome of your efforts will be worth it many times over.