Welcome to January 2017.
Our Science of Parenting team wanted to take just a moment to say ‘thank-you’. Thank-you for continuing to spend time with us here on our blog. Thank-you for sharing your thoughts and ideas with us and thank-you for supporting our efforts to provide research based information for parents. We appreciate the messages you have sent us throughout the year and we look forward to sharing more time together with you in 2017.
We decided to start 2017 off with a topic that several of our faculty are currently researching. Punishment vs Discipline.
What’s the difference you might be asking? Great question.
When it comes to raising children, we often find parents confused on what do to when it comes to punishment or discipline. In looking at the definitions, we see a stark contrast in the two words. Punishment-to inflict injury on versus discipline-training that corrects.
This month at the Science of Parenting we are going to dive into those two words and review the research that has been done by faculty and students right here at Iowa State.
We look forward to sharing with you!
