Lack Of Discipline At Spring Valley High School

By now, everyone all over the world has heard about the incident that took place at Spring Valley High School. A student got slammed to the ground by South Carolina’s school resource officer for not following the rules. The student was repeatedly asked by adults to get out of her seat but she refused to listen. If the student was taught discipline at home, do you think this incident could have been prevented? This generation of parents has to develop structure, be a parent to their children not a friend and teach them the way and they will not go astray.

Parents should discipline their children to develop structure. Lack of discipline is a huge reason why children have no respect for most adults. Remember that you are your children’s prime

Parents seem to have a struggle between spoiling and disciplining their kids. “There are some families in which the parents’ beliefs about changing children’s behavior are so different that their attempts at discipline become more of a problem than a solution.”(Kutner Lawrence 2). Kids become mixed up because the father could be telling them one thing and the mother can be telling them another. “A child whose mother is strict but whose father is a consistent pushover, for example, receives confusing information about what’s expected.” (Kutner Lawrence 2). In those situations the main issue of teaching children how to behave often gets lost in a battle between the parents control. The children react by continuing to be disobedient to earn their own power and to decide on which rule really

Both parents seem to understand things differently than the other. “One parent may be quicker to yell and the other parent may be more sensitive and choose to forgive the child.” (Steve Persall 300). For example, a child can steal out of a store or act out in school, one parent may choose serious discipline by grounding the child and the other parent would choose an easier route by telling the child “Go to your room!” It’s healthy for a child to see his/her parents come together to develop a resolution of the issue. “Parents take much of their approach to discipline from their own childhood, often repeating what was done to them or taking exactly the opposite tack. Many of the assumptions underlying their beliefs go unspoken and unchallenged.” (Amy Francis 30). Parents try to raise their children under the rules that they were once