Grounding kids has been used for years as parents thought it was a great alternative to physical discipline. Unfortunately, it’s a parenting trap.
Like in prison, when kids are grounded, they focus their attention on the “mean” people who punished them, rather than what they actually did wrong or how what they did affected other people.
In this video, Jason goes over a few different scarious in which grounding would be a common punishment. Instead, Jason offers solutions on how you can handle the situation differently and have your child learn in the process.
Our job as parents is to teach our kids the ways of the world. Grounding our kids is not going to help them be moral and ethical children. In fact, it typically does the opposite, teaching them to be better liars and simply get better at avoiding being caught.
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