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Encouraging
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Encouraging Good Behaviour
Most children will learn how to behave well if the environment in which they grow up is nurturing and caring. The idea that "punishment" has an important place in the rearing of children is misleading. Too often, punishment is used to satisfy the needs of adults to get back at the child. The child often cannot understand what they have done wrong. Frequently, children fail to learn from being punished. Punishment can give rise to anger and resentment. These feelings do not encourage improved behaviour. Parental disapproval of the behaviour, not the child, may help a child to learn how to behave acceptably.
