Discipline and bullying.

You are always way more knowledgable about a topic when you aren't actually dealing with it yourself.  I remember being an unmarried just out of college woman that was convinced exactly how I would be when I was a wife and mother.  I would see these other examples and critique what they were doing and how very wrong I thought it was.

I can remember vividly listening to a 7 or 8 year old following their mother around Target saying Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom and thinking why on earth doesn't that evil woman just answer this precious treasure?!

I am not above telling you that I was an idiot.

I had no idea that the poor woman had probably heard her beautiful angel beg for something so many times that she was well past the "I'm going to lose it" phase and was doing everything she possibly could to not embarrass herself in Target by calling down hellfire on her spawns head.

I was wrong.  I get it.  I do want to say something though.

There is a difference between discipline and bullying.

A parent must discipline their child into correct acceptable behavior that will not get them beaten up later in life.

Discipline: the practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behavior, using punishment to correct disobedience.

I can go into a long tangent on this but the short story is...

If you yell at your child to get what you want what have you taught your child?  Yell to get what you want.

If you sit down and explain to your child what you expect and then do not waiver from that expectation what have you taught your child?  You are in charge and you are to be respected.

Now granted.  Even the best behaved children are going to have bad days, good night there are days that I want to pitch a fit in the middle of Target but discipline your child...do not bully them.