Contest- what's the best way to discipline a child by @raysdesign

Hello steemians am so excited to be a part of this contest.
I do not have kids yet but I have worked has a teacher in a nursery school for 2years and learnt alot about kids.

WHAT'S THE BEST WAY TO DISCIPLINE A CHILD

It has been overly stressed that children are very impressionable, and that by default, their brains are factory fitted like a blank slate, with nothing written on it on their first entrance to mother earth. So it follows logically that with children around you, your actions and behaviour are their biggest sources of discipline. Due to their impressionable nature, they constantly nose around, scavenging for information to feed their data-starved brains with.

The entrance of this essay at this time is particularly apt and significant, especially as the world celebrates international day against drug abuse this week. Some of the key highlights that chiefly featured during a symposium organised to commemorate the day in my local community of Uyo, Akwa Ibom state, Nigeria, were lectures and interactive sessions that harped on how the foundation of discipline against drug abuse and other vices are laid in the homes. Professor Emem Bassey and associate professor, Aniekan Brown lectured on the health hazards of drug abuse; and the Nexus between drug abuse and insecurity, as well as the synergy between the youths and the state in nation building respectively. In their respective lectures, they stressed that between the formative years of 15 and 19 are children and youths most influenced and are most susceptible to succumb to peer pressure, which could lead to the abuse of drugs and indulgence in other vices currently rife in our societies.

I was raised by a single mother,she hated lying,disobedience and insult,if you lie to her and she finds out the truth,your life will never remain the same.
On this fateful I was 11 or 12 years of age then and was able to do some things very well,she asked me to parboil rice so we can eat with stew and she warned me not to sprinkle water on the stove when am done I should just turn it off the usual way. when I was done i did turned it off the usual way but the light was still there i tried to blew it off but to no avail,if I had know I would have just left it that way but i was like the kerosene should not waste so I sprinkled water on it and she heard it inside and immediately rushed out and asked "what did you do"and i answered "mummy nothing" and she said" i heard something that sounded as if someone sprinkle water on the stove" and I still denied it and then she examined the stove and found out I actually used water at this point explanation was useless,she asked me to kneel down and she flogged me on my hands,after crying for minutes she called me and apologized but there were other instances she will yell at me,looked at me and I will just have to understand but then she was the best mother i could ever asked for,she loved me that's why she corrected me when I did something wrong.

For my own way to discipline a child
I will use different methods to correct a child like talking to him or her and not use cane every time to hit a child with a view to correct him or her.

It follows logically that parents are the first role models that children will ever be exposed to. In fact, if parents got it right in the disciplining of their children, then the world attaining a utopic standard, would not be so impossible. To discipline a kid so he or she grows into the best version of themselves, does not mean going about it harshly or as bullies in form of parents.

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The only form of discipline children would ever understand best, is the one mirrored to them through their parents actions and behaviours. So to effectively discipline kids, parents must live right and teach their kids to emulate their
examples.

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I am grateful to @steemkids community for this amazing platform and am thankful to @ngoenyi for organizing this contest.

I invite @emidolling @esthyfashion and @vickydear to participate in this contest.