Bird Fluera

Discipline during middle and late childhood is often easier for parents than it was during early childhood; it may also be easier than during adolescence.  In middle and late childhood, children’s cognitive development has matured to the point where it is possible for their parents to reason with them about resisting deviation and controlling their behavior.  By adolescence, children’s reasoning has become more sophisticated, and they may be lass likely to accept parental discipline.  Adolescents also push more strongly for independence, which contributes to parenting difficulties.  parents of elementary schools children use less physical discipline than do parents of preschool children.  By contrast, parents of elementary school children are more likely to use deprivation of privileges, appeals directed at the child’s self-esteem, comments designed to increase the child’s sense of guilt, and statements indicating to the child that he or she is responsible for his or her actions.