POSITIVE PARENTING AS AN IMPORTANT FACTOR FOR RAISING HAPPY CHILDREN

Abstract

How can we successfully educate our children? This question is asked by every parent who knows how difficult it could be the everyday life with a naughty child. What can be done? Positive parenting comes to the rescue. It emphasizes mutual respect and uses positive instructions. The positive parenting focus on learning rather than punishment. Different studies show that using this method of discipline has better results in term of child behavior, emotional development, academic success and mental health. Often, when one hears the word “discipline”, many associate it with negative associations, mainly related to punishment, which is thought to go “hand in hand” with discipline. However, the real meaning of the word “discipline”, which comes from the Latin word “disciplina”, is “learning”. Hence, discipline is basically a process of learning and adopting values, rules, norms and principles of acceptable behavior in a society.