Re: Desi parenting ish-style
Allah reham kare, we don't do any of those. We believe in positive reinforcement mostly, we will eventually do time outs and other forms of discipline. We don't believe in thappars, but spankings, possibly, not hard obviously, more for the fear.
We also are VERY conscious of Lila's behavior in public, if she starts acting up, we remove her from the situation instead of letting her misbehave or scream. Like if we go to a restaurant and lila starts fussing, we take her out until the food gets there and then she's fine because she's eating.
We understand that kids act out because there's something up not because they are jerks, either they are bored or overstimulated or uncomfortable or not engaged enough, THOSE root causes are what we try to address instead of the behavior resulting from them.