About a while back, I had read multiple post that had to do with how parents choose to discipline their kids and a lot of the ones I read were from people in foreign countries (by foreign countries, I mean countries not in Africa), and as expected, just like I see in the movies, their method of discipline mainly involves giving their kids timeout, getting them grounded or trying to reason with them by talking to them when they do something wrong or are about to do something.
Now while I don't totally agree with that kind of training (because I'm a huge advocate of spare the rod and spoil the child), I respect their methods because it's the way they were brought up and it probably works for them. But if there's one thing I'm not entirely in support with, it is totally eliminating the option to discipline your kids the physical way every now and then.
Now although my point of view might be a bit biased, seeing how physical discipline is the only kind of discipline I've known, as that was how I was trained, I still would like us to look at this topic using common sense.
Because what do you do when getting them grounded or putting them on timeout isn't enough? What do you do when you try to talk to that kid but they go ahead and do what's in their mind anyways?
Do you look at them defeated, because you know that they know that there's nothing more you can do?
Back in the day, most times whenever my siblings did something they weren't suppose to do, let's say maybe they went out to a party that we all were strictly instructed not to attend...my dad would say nothing until it was 2am in the morning when we all were fast asleep.
And then he would start swinging his cane like a professional samurai swinging his swords. Now in as much as disciplining us that way was very risky as we could get hurt, that placed the fear of God in us.
Funny enough, I never got to experience the midnight discipline ,not even once in my life because I didn't have to. Everytime I remembered what my brothers went through during those nights, it got me straight and automatically stopped me from doing anything that could potentially put me in that position.
Anyways, I'm really curious to know what you guys do when the talking method and grounding them method doesn't work? Because these movies haven't really done enough justice to explaining that part to me and this is because I keep telling everyone I know that if I knew that the punishment I would get everytime I did something wrong was only getting grounded, I probably would have turned out as one of the worse persons on earth today.