Unusual disciplinary methods?

[freedom4all]

I remembered that back in elementary school, there was this girl whose parents made her wear a dress to school if she misbehaved. She was a real tomboy, and wearing a dress was terrible punishment for her. Needless to say, we knew if she had been naughty.

Have you tried or heard of unusual methods like this? I'm curious.

 

[Robinsegg]

Lisa Whelchel has a book called Creative Correction that's chalk-full of this sort of thing. It should be available at your local library or bookstore.

Rachel

 

[GolfingMom]

Lisa Whelchel has a book called Creative Correction that's chalk-full of this sort of thing. It should be available at your local library or bookstore.

Rachel

OH - good Ol' Blair! I have heard SOOOOO many GOOD things about this book. Still trying to locate a copy.

 

[seamonster]

When my siblings and I used to fight, my parents made us hug for one full minute.

It may sound really weird, but we rarely fought and I'm best friends with my little brothers.

 

[~Nikki~]

When my siblings and I used to fight, my parents made us hug for one full minute.

It may sound really weird, but we rarely fought and I'm best friends with my little brothers.

Lol! My mum used to make my sister and I hug and kiss to make up with each other after we fought.

Of course neither of us wanted to or we wouldn't have been fighting in the first place. So we'd hug at arms' length and give a real puckered up prune faced little peck on the cheek, with eyes screwed tight shut so we didn't have to look at each other. Then we'd start fighting silently after mum left the room!

It didn't work for us in that it didn't make us stop fighting. It just made us cross with mum for interrupting a good argument!

 

[Entertaining_Angels]

Yes, I used a spray bottle to calm my daughter when she was having an out-of-control fit in the car. Found out on this site that it is quite controversial but in real life everybody I know is supportive. Just leads me to believe, if you try unusual discipline techniques and share them here, prepare to be judged

 

[Andry]

I remembered that back in elementary school, there was this girl whose parents made her wear a dress to school if she misbehaved. She was a real tomboy, and wearing a dress was terrible punishment for her. Needless to say, we knew if she had been naughty.

Have you tried or heard of unusual methods like this? I'm curious.

Discipline is correction, not punishment. Which is altogether different.

There's nothing disciplinary about the example you cited as that is not correcting a bad or undesirable behaviour. That's more of a punishment.

Don't get me wrong, I believe in punishment; but too often we lump correction and punishment together under "discipline".

So the above may have been an effective method of punishment, but it sure as heck isn't correction.