What Does Tough Love Mean for Positive Parenting ?
Many parents are alarmed when the experts advocate tough love as they think of it as a rather cruel and tough treatment and the NIH have noted that ‘get tough treatments do not work’. Some parents worry that this type of discipline is maybe bordering on child neglect and child abuse. Here are some guidelines for tough love or positive parenting or assertive parenting or whatever you like to call it! Love and discipline go hand in hand! That means simply being able to apply the rules while still showing you love your child. You can show that love in many different ways. Learn to empathise and bond too. But everyone knows the bottom line and that can be firmly and fairly applied. The main thing is not to change the goal posts! Who can tell me how to set the boundaries? Most behavior modification technique programs can really tell you what to do to set routines, establish rules for homework, curfews, limits of verbal abuse and so on. There is nothing cruel about tough love provided you ca
