We will focus on these three discipline methods so that you will be able to determine which type of discipline you use in your parenting. So, we will take a look at the permissive discipline method that we are all too familiar with.

This implements the strategy of pleading or negotiating, both of which is basically yielding to your childs wishes or wants in order to end the conflict at hand. This is when you are usually at your ropes end and you have run out of power, if you ever had it at all.

In any case, your childs actual needs are not really addressed, so in a way, this is a form of neglect. You are neglecting to understand or address your childs real needs.

Permissive parenting usually means that your home environment is often exhausting and chaotic. If you continue to be a permissive parent, your child will likely grow up to be very demanding, selfish, manipulative and even domineering. You may even feel resentful of your child.

Authoritarian discipline is just what it sounds like, control through fear or violence. This can be physical or verbal abuse in the case of violent authoritative parenting. Hitting, yelling, criticizing or threatening means that you are trying to control your child by force. When it comes down to discipline and toddlers, this is the most destructive ways of parenting.

Your home environment will be very tense and rigid. Your child will often feel angry, scared and in most instances, have a low self esteem.

However, the violent authoritative parent will eventually run out of power.

Now, there is also the no violence authoritative discipline that can include such things as rewards and or punishments. By treating your child with a reward for stopping their bad behavior, you are basically giving them all of the power, and your child will grow up to be resentful and often manipulated.

This is where, as a teenager, your child will withdraw and seek unconditional love somewhere else. It seems that your teen will no longer talk with you, and in the end, you run out of power.

The third discipline method is the democratic parenting. This is when your child and you both have a sense of power and control. It is by implementing this discipline method that the power is shared, resulting in no power struggles and it makes cooperation easy.

Your home environment will be relaxed and flexible where any problem solving is wanted. your children will feel loved and they will grow up to be respnsible, cooperative and respectful.

And when your child journeys into their teen years, they will not withdraw or rebel because they are feeling loved and connected with you.

So, as you can see, discipline and toddlers focuses on the democratic discipline method. It involves communication as well as problem solving that includes both of your input. This type of discipline leads to self confidence, respect and cooperation, something that every parent wants from not only their child, but of themselves, making a good role model for their children.