What do you mean by External Discipline vs Positive Discipline?
In a nut shell, ‘positive discipline’ involves strategies that acknowledge that children are poorly socialized and are expressing their feelings in an inappropriate manner. Thus, teachers not only limit the inappropriate behavior, they acknowledge the feeling of the child and teach or ask the child to problem-solve an appropriate behavior. Example: “I know you’re angry, but you may not hit. You need to use your words.” The end result of strategies such as these is that children learn to control themselves and become independent. Strategies that make use of punishment and predominance of rewards tend to make children externally motivated or dependent on the reward that is received or avoidance of punishment.
