Child Runs and Explores While Shopping
| Question: I have just found your website and am going to go buy one of the positive discipline books tomorrow. My daughter is almost 17months old and is a very good little girl. Our challenge is when we are out and about, shopping or farmers market for example. She wants to run and explore (of course), she runs away and we end up having to chase her, even when we tell her no or stop. I know she is at an exploration stage but I don’t know when to discipline versus letting her run around. I guess I just don’t know when true discipline should be implemented?Thank you, Carla | |
| Answer:Hi Carla, Does it help to know that just about every parent experiences what you are experiencing—and that it is very normal. Before giving some suggestions, I would like to address you last statement about when true discipline should be implemented. This leads me to believe that you may have a different idea about discipline that what we teach through Positive Discipline. When you see the following criteria for effective discipline, you’ll see that it is appropriate all the | |
