Ep. 344 | Why You Need a Correction System For 4-10 Year Olds
The Family Teams Podcast
Jeff Bethke
4.9 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2022
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Jeremy and Jeff discuss a correction system for young kids, as opposed to merely a reward or discipline system.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, guys? Welcome back to the five-minute fatherhood segment of the Family Team's podcast. |
| 0:10.6 | Jeff and I want to chat to you guys a little bit about why you need a correction system for kids, |
| 0:16.2 | especially around the ages of four to ten. And I wanted, Jeff, you to tease out a little bit of what you guys do, |
| 0:20.8 | but I wanted just from a big picture perspective, most of us when we are in the process of |
| 0:25.3 | training our children, we tend to have a discipline system. Like, in other words, we will create |
| 0:33.2 | a sort of certain things that will cause us to discipline our kids, and there's different, obviously, |
| 0:39.0 | ways of doing that, but many parents have thought through that. And then another system that a |
| 0:44.6 | lot of us also have is a reward system, which is also really helpful, something that we do for the |
| 0:50.1 | children when they're in the midst of being trained and they are achieving something. |
| 0:54.7 | We want to reward that as a way of really helping them, just stretching them, not in a way |
| 1:00.8 | to create a performance culture in the family, but to really try to understand and help our kids, |
| 1:05.7 | and this is especially in these younger ages, like I said, four, five, six, seven, when they |
| 1:09.3 | are really trying to figure out why should I try to be trained in this area or sort of listen to you and get kind of in that |
| 1:19.6 | and a good habit going, rewards are helpful. But what we always find is that people rarely |
| 1:25.2 | have a correction system. |
| 1:28.3 | And these are, these typically require you to really have thought through, what is something |
| 1:33.6 | really small that you can either give or take away that isn't going to create a big conversation |
| 1:39.3 | or a mass of emotional breakdown, right? |
| 1:42.6 | But it's something that would be like, oh, yeah, that |
| 1:44.5 | sort of pinged them in a way that they could really receive that, hey, that's not what we're |
| 1:49.1 | looking for. Oh, no, that's it. That's what we look for. So we do a thing called a marble system. |
| 1:53.2 | We've tried that and, you know, giving a marble when they're, they've done something that is, |
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