How to Discipline Your Child: Keys to Positive Parenting

Thank you for this video! I’d love to know more about responding to a child after the discipline. If they are upset with saying no or the boundary that has been set, how to respond to them in that time.

Amazing content, thank you very much 🙏🏻 I know it’s unpopular to say but I have to admit that I use the word NO too much and I really struggle with maintaining calm and positive presence when they act like the little girl you described... Have you got some suggestion on being calm when feeling really angry? Thank you 🙏🏻

I have to say I used NO! when it came to hitting. If not close enough to stop the action, sometimes (especially if used very rarely!) a loud NO! can surprise a child and stop them long enough for you to get across the room and where the action is happening.

I love your channel and advice. My 5 year old grandchild is consistently unkind to her soon to be stepdad and says terrible things about him to friends and teachers and even his own daughter. We all have been very patient and tell her pedagogical stories about the rewards of kindness and good deeds, but she is extremely willful and it is wearing on everyone, especially the stepdad. Any ideas on how to bring some peace to this situation?
Thank you for any suggestions you may have!

Thankyou <3

Thank you for being a voice of reason! It is so foolish that parents believe they should refrain from using the word "no" at all! They are setting their children up for a world of disappointment and greater difficulty. Just today a friend commented she heard a mother say to another adult in the grocery store that they do not use the word "no" at all with their children. Ohhh boy. I also really appreciate your advice on using "no" in a positive manner. Great video! I watch them all :)

Thank you! Very helpful.

Hope all is well. I noticed there was no Sunday with Sarah video this week. Your videos are such an inspiration for our family and provide so much wonderful and heart felt information. Thank you for all you do.

Thank you, this video is very usefull to grandparents too...

I am trying to only say no for a good reason, however, my daughter wants a different toy every 2 minutes (she does not have access to all at the same time so the mess is manageable). This does not fall under any of your reasons, or does it? She is not hurting anybody and not hurting property. Would you give her new toys all the time? She is done playing with one thing so quickly. I make her clean up the last toy before she can have a new one, but it is so much work for me to constantly deal with this. She will be 4 soon. Thanks for your videos!

Great video Sarah! I was hoping you could talk about motivating students. I have a 4th grader that I homeschool and there's been times I can't get him excited for school. He doesn't want to do the writing in the MLB. Some days he's great and gets into the work other days he just gets upset. Any advice would be appreciated Sarah!

Being a Waldorf kid, I value not using the word no. And had successfully gotten my husband on board and Still maintain it. But...one Christmas with my family, my much much younger sister told my young one, no no no. And it took us about 3 months to break the game my little one had started to play. And even after hours of father daughter conversation my father still doesn't get why it upset me a little, and why I don't like to use the word no in my parenting. It did show me how much Steiner school has impacted me. And showed a clear definition between generations and our teaching methods. 🥰 It's so important to be mindful of the vocabulary we use when addressing our children and for a stay at home homeschooling mom, it's crazy stressful with a 3 yr old.🥳

Thank you for sharing this, Sarah. It’s such a relief to know that we are indeed helping our children when we are firm in the way you described... because sometimes it’s so challenging and the urge to ‘give in’ gets strong! Your videos are wonderful and you are just lovely. Also - our family adores Bella Luna x

Love it.

In other words you restrained thde child against her will all because she couldnt go out woithout shoes? Are you kidding me? let the kid learn what shoes are for. All you did was force compliance. She was likely faking being nice out of fear of being held back again. You only think you are doing good, but only in your mind.

Well said!!! Thank you👍

Very informative for me....I heartly thanku to you ma'am.....big big fan for your content delivery.

i don’t feel a child needs discipline if they feel nurtured, loved and safe. just have a conversation about what went on, then there will be a trust between child and parent and child probably won’t wanna get in trouble.

Hello, I am Carla from Argentina. Thank you for all the videos you post! Could you talk about kindergarden adaptation? I see lot of children crying when their parents leave and i dont feel thats my way to do with my 3 years old daughter. Thank you .

It's funny, it might seem kind of unrelated at first but I was reading a book (The gift of fear) which delves into the topics of domestic abuse/stalking/romantic partners that become obsessive ect,

What got to me is the advice he gives is the same you are giving to parents, do not cave to persistence, if the stalker calls you 23 times and you answer on the 24th, he then knows it takes 24 calls to get a response from you. Perhaps what your teaching is the groundwork for raising people who are not manipulative and who take the word no seriously and I think that should be a lesson to us all

Can you please explain to me what a "willful" child is? I remember my daycare teachers saying I was a "willful" child (I do not believe I went to a waldorf school), when one would definitely describe me as a troubled kid because I had an abusive household, and also was diagnosed with Autism and ADHD later in my adult years after many years of struggling despite my therapy.
When you mean "willful", do you mean they are "problematic" in a specific scenario? If so, could you explain some scenarios on how one contains a "willful" child? Are some children too difficult to handle in your schools? Do you often see parents withdrawing their children who would be described this way?

I ask because I have been in child education for a good while, but have eye-balled Waldorf schools and the gentler approach a lot of teachers have with children. In my experience, a lot of parents of difficult children are usually very problematic themselves and refuse to listen to teachers about their children's behavior -- despite my more gentle approaches to mitigating issues, sometimes a child had to be expelled for harming other children, teachers, or property. Are these technically considered "willful" in the waldorf education system?

Hello please add turkish subtitles thanks