Punishment and Consequences
Topic : -
| 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