ABSTRACT
Parents are tasked with many responsibilities in rearing their children to be competent, well-functioning members of society. These responsibilities include providing for children’s physical needs and protecting them from harm, as well as providing for socioemotional and cognitive needs by offering love and stimulation. One of the most important ways that parents shape their children’s behavior is through the use of proactive discipline to encourage desired behavior in the future and reactive discipline to respond to misbehavior after it occurs. This chapter focuses on parents’ use of discipline to socialize desired child behaviors.
