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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.

Name calling is an emotional attack and is prohibited in foster care licensing law as it is humiliating punishment. The number of minutes in a time out should not exceed the child's age (such as four minutes for four year olds). This option constitutes punishment.

B	State "No name calling" and initiate a four minute maximum time out. When the time out is over offer acceptable words, such as "I'm mad."

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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