ALL ABOUT BABIES...
A Public Service of the
National Baby Care Council
How To
Discipline Baby
By William Kitay
Member, National Association of
Science Writers ; Editor,
All About Babies
In rearing your baby, which shall
it be when it comes to discipline—
old fashioned firmness or new fash
ioned permissiveness?
Many parents take a middle posi
tion in this continuing controversy.
They favor a little of each. To put
it into one simple word, they be
lieve in moderation.
Dr. Ronald Lippitt of the Uni
versity of Michigan Research Cen
ter for Group Dynamics, in a state
ment to this column, says numer
ous studies over the past 25 years
show that moderation is not the
answer. The studies show that mod
eration will not bring about the
best result.
Instead, Dr. Lippitt says, parents
should combine warmth of affec
tion with firm, consistent disci
pline in rearing their children.
“In character building,” says
Dr. Lippitt, “it is necessary to dis
tinguish at least two dimensions.
These are firmness or consistency
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t
of discipline and warmth of affec
tion, which is not consistent with
harsh, oversevere practice such as
whipping.
“On neither of these is a mid
point best. Instead, the ideal in
volves going rather far toward one
extreme in firmness or consistency
and very far toward another ex
treme in warmth of affection.”
Dr. Lippitt explains that among
the things that have been learned
from discipline studies of ohildren
is that “conscience building” is as
sociated with firmness "only when
there is consistency and not when
it is accompanied by severe punish
ment.”
“If anything,” says Dr. Lippitt,
“boys who undergo severe punish
ment in their homes are on the
average less conscientious than
those who do not. Perhaps, this is
•because severe punishment creates
a psychological gulf between the
parent and the child. The parent’s
approval may no longer be so
greatly desired. Feeling rejected,
the child may in turn reject the
parent, and rejoice in thwarting
or circumventing the parent’s will.
“Once firmness is purged of over
severity, however, there is appar
ently a conscience building value
in the child’s knowing just how far
he can go. When the limits are
clear, the child has a tendency to
put out of his mind those things
which he is sure will lead to trou
ble with the parent.”
To put is briefly, according to Dr.
Lippitt, when it comes to disci
pline, the best results are accom
plished not by one word, “modera
tion,” but by two words, “firmness
and warmth.”
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