Tailor your discipline efforts to your child

What works for your child, depends on both you and your child's relationship and personality. By gathering a set of discipline tools that you can pick from allows you to pick the most appropriate and effective method for each situation.

• Collect ideas

• Adapt them to your specific situation

• Try them out

Age appropriate discipline 

Redirection

Very young children will not understand or learn from time outs. 

• Distract the child from their unwelcome behavior

• Redirect them to a more acceptable behavior

Trial and error will tell you what works and doesn't work. When traveling, going out to a public place or to a friends or relatives house, bring items to help distract and redirect unwelcome behavior.

Make sure your child is not hungry or tired as this can lead to your child getting frustrated more easily and showing bad behavior. Over-stimulation can also lead to excitable and unwanted behavior.