Test Your Knowledge!

Choose a response to each situation below using discipline instead of punishment. Click the letter next to the response you choose.

1. Situation: Seven year old Kim leaves a mess in the kitchen.

A	Send her to bed a half hour early.

B	Call her into the kitchen to clean up her mess.

2. Situation: Eleven year old Gabriel's teacher informs you that he is not completing assignments.

A	Establish a mandatory study table time on school nights.

B	Take away his allowance for a month.

3. Situation: Four year old Victor calls you unpleasant names when you tell him "No more cookies until after dinner."

A	Call him the same names and send him to the corner for 30 minutes.

4. Situation: Sixteen year old Shantelle does mild property damage in a fit of anger.

A	Mutually review restitution options when all parties are calmer, and decide together on the appropriate restitution.

B	Immediately yell "You lose your clothing allowance for that!"

 

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