Program Elements
The Art of Discipline
Children and teenagers are equipped with ideas and strategies to develop cooperative behavior and the desire to adhere to collective rules and guidelines. Techniques used retain and honor the dignity of each individual, child and adult alike.
Some of the areas covered are as follows:
Elements:
- Discipline Then and Now
- Adult-Child Relationships
- The Adult's Attitude
- Communication and Discipline
- Goals of Misbehavior
- Effective Discipline
- Cooperative Discipline
- Creating Rules
- Preventative Discipline
- Responsibility
Key Ideas:
- Personal power over a problem
- Rights carry responsibility
- Consequences can be negotiable, rules are not
- Consequences vs. Punishment
- Disciplining vs. Blaming
- Authoritarian vs. Authority
- Discipline with dignity