Misbehavior in Elementary School Children

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This paper describes misbehavior or delinquent behavior as talking back to parents, not respecting the property or rights of other individuals, refusing to do chores or do what a parent has asked and throwing temper tantrums or other types of fits to get their way. The author stresses that parents, who do not understand the underlying causes or the disciplinary problems of the misbehavior issue, will often not discipline the child correctly; if parents, teachers and others discipline children excessively, the negative behavior may be repressed and another new undesirable behavior may emerge. The paper stresses that the main purpose of disciplinary actions is not to punish children but rather to teach them; the best test is that the punishment conveys the idea that the behavior was unacceptable and the parent is not happy about being required to punish the child.

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"Generally, parents that punish children more often than once a week may also need counseling for issues that relate to the strictness of the rules that they have or the overpunishment of children that may not deserve it. If parents reject their children or are cold to them the punishment that they make will often not be very effective. When sympathetic, caring, and loving parents punish their children the effect is often better. Love without discipline is harmful for children because they do not learn the boundaries that they need, but disciplining a child without love can also be very harmful because children then begin to feel that they are worthless and that their parents do not love or even like them."

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