THE CHANGING FACE OF DISCIPLINE!

Mother!!!! My phone model is ancient, get me a new one!” “Dad, Really????? That’s the car you want to be seen in???” “Mum, you understand nothing!! If only you knew what it is like out there. What all we need to do to fit in…..” “If I don’t want to go, I won’t go….and you can’t make me!!” I could go on and on and on, listing endless examples of how children today think, speak and react to their surroundings, their parents and their lives. Things once considered a privilege are now expected. The terms ‘Respect’ and ‘Discipline’ take a back seat to ‘Demands’ and ‘Birthright’. What I am about to say will definitely make me sound like a specimen from the years gone by, but that’s a risk I am ready to take. When we were kids (yes, I can see the eyes roll of every single child reading this……more familiar and repetitive words have never been spoken), we were taught to listen and obey. When asked to do something by an adult, we got up and did it. Questioning the rationale behin...