Unpleasant Discipline

My daughter would rather take her school holiday and watch TV than do chores or read a book. Therefore, the other day, I pulled the cord on the TV until she had read a book for one hour quietly in her room and told me about it.

She whimpered and complained, “This is boring! I don’t want to read!” My helper responded, “Mma, just let her watch TV. She doesn’t want to read. Shame!”

This scenario has played out more times than I can count! A scene where my child or another child pitches an uncomfortable fit about not wanting to do something and the parent who insists on the child doing the right thing, albeit not the favourite thing, is shamed somehow and encouraged to give in to stop the crying. Today I want to talk about this.

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