How to Stay Calm and Collected when Correcting Your Child

This is not the ultimate how to but it is a start.

Here are some noodles and doodles from an article written by Ginger Plowman entitled "Disciplining Your Child Without Loosing Your Cool" published on family life.

Number One is the best and most convicting one in my opinion.

1. Examine Your Motives:

"Am I doing this because my will has been violated or God's will has been violated?

2. Examine Your life:

What example do you lead with? Have you made your kid angry leading up to this behavior?

3. Choose the right time and place:

Don't discipline in front of their friends if possible take them away from friends. This will ensure that the focus of the child is not humiliation but rather on their undesirable action.

4. Give them a biblical alternative to the behavior.

Don't just address the problem but rather give them something to do in contrast to the undesirable behavior for next time.