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I'm not a parent, but I've helped raise my nephew (who will be 6 next month) and for my summer job, I'm babysitting a 4 year old girl. I just wanted to give a bit of my experience.
The parents of this girl I'm babysitting do very little by way of punishment and discipline. They give her many chances to listen to them and obey them, and then they'll put her in time-out for three minutes. It doesn't do a damn thing. While she's in time-out, she's given her "blankie," to make her feel better, which I think defeats the purpose of being punished. When the three minutes is up, she is immediately coddled again.
As a result, she gets pretty much whatever she wants. The neighbor and I think that the parents go along with whatever the girl wants just because it's easier, but as a result of that, she's a spoiled, obnoxious little girl who doesn't listen, who yells and screams and kicks and hits her parents.
Discipline is necessary from a very young age if you want your child to listen and obey you later in life.
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~Alex~
You've come far, and though you're far from the end, you don't mind where you are, 'cause you know where you've been.
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