Punishment and Consequences
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Punishment | Logical Consequences |
1. Used by an authority figure | Reflect the world with cause and effect |
2. Often done in anger | Can be used without much emotion |
3. Often unrelated to the misbehavior | Logically related to the misbehavior |
4. Moral judgment by parent | Moral responsibility by child/teen |
5. Focused on the past | Focused on the present and future |
6. Use restricted to home | Transferable to many other situations |
7. Appropriate for control (I control them) | Appropriate for influence and motivation (They exercise self-control) |
Tim Smith, The Relaxed Parent, p. 14