Until recently I thought we were doing not too bad of a job with the discipline aspect of parenting. On the most part our kids listened and behaved well. Usually for punishment we take away a privilege but lately the follow through on the punishment has been quite lax. My son just doesn’t seem to care if he loses a privilege, I know it’s because he doesn’t really believe that he’s lost anything (lack of follow through).
Every time I give him a consequence for his actions (losing a privelege) I always think “What privilege can he lose that I am going to follow through with?” Like for example, if he is misbehaving and we have an upcoming event, I could take away the privilege of him attending the event – but is that something I’m going to want to do – not attend the event? Or do I really want to take away his toys or ground him from playing outside etc. I guess my problem is trying to determine which privileges he’ll lose. I guess I just have to start being a little more creative in chosing privileges and consequences.
