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title: "The golden rule of discipline: be kind and firm!"
description: "The golden rule of discipline: be kind and firm!"
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last_updated: 2026-02-22
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## ÜHA Hakkında
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# The golden rule of discipline: be kind and firm!

## Bilgi

| Özellik | Değer |
|---------|-------|
| **Kategori** | saglik |
| **Yayın Tarihi** | 2025-08-22 |
| **Güncelleme** | 2026-02-22 |
| **Kaynak** | [Üsküdar Haber Ajansı](https://uha.com.tr/golden-rule-of-discipline-kind-and-firm) |

## Özet

Experts state that discipline in children begins from the age of 3 and should continue in an age-appropriate manner.

## İçerik

Drawing attention to the reward-punishment balance in the discipline process, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist Dr. Lecturer Neriman Kilit said, “The most important point to remember in the reward-punishment mechanism is that there should be one punishment for every three rewards. The main approach is to use a reward mechanism. But the reward should not turn into a bribe.” Kilit stated that yelling, hitting, and humiliating are among the wrong punishments, emphasizing that the correct method is deprivation of privileges. Kilit also noted that punishments for young children should not last longer than 3 days, underlining that discipline should be administered in a ‘kind but firm’ manner.

Dr. Lecturer Neriman Kilit, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at Üsküdar Üniversitesi NP Feneryolu Medical Center, provided information on how to establish a reward-punishment balance in child discipline and how to apply correct discipline methods.

**What matters is increasing or decreasing behavior…**

Dr. Lecturer Neriman Kilit, stating that discipline in children begins from the age of 3, said, “It then continues with age-appropriate discipline. Discipline is initiated through an operant conditioning system.” Kilit, explaining that operant conditioning is a process involving reinforcers and punishers, said, “What is important here are the systems aimed at increasing or decreasing a child’s behavior. For example, if a child doesn’t want to taste new foods, the behavior can be increased with positive reinforcers. After the child tastes the food cooked at home, we can immediately reinforce the behavior of tasting new foods by giving them a little of the food they like.”

**Giving rewards all the time can turn into bribery!**

Emphasizing that the most important point to remember in the reward-punishment mechanism is that there should be one punishment for every three rewards, Dr. Lecturer Neriman Kilit said, “The main approach is to use a reward mechanism. But the biggest risk here is that the reward should not turn into a bribe. In other words, you don't always give a reward to make a child do something. Because then it turns into bribery.” Stating that there are positive and negative punishments in the punishment system, Kilit explained, “Although positive punishment helps to increase the behavior, it is actually an undesirable method. These are punishments such as hitting the child, yelling at the child, humiliating the child, locking the child in their room, and not allowing them to leave the room for hours.”

**Correct punishment should be in the form of deprivation of privileges!**

Touching upon how correct punishment should be, Dr. Lecturer Neriman Kilit said, “Correct punishments should be in the form of deprivation of privileges. Just like the punishments we receive in real life for the mistakes we make. For example, if an employee doesn't go to work for a month and doesn't perform their duties, no one yells at them, hits them, or scolds them; but they don't get paid. Children should also be punished with this logic.”

**Kilit, giving an example of the correct punishment system, concluded his words as follows:**

“Let's say a child has a half-hour screen time today. But on that day, they didn't comply with their half-hour or they have a half-hour screen time after doing their homework, but they didn't do their homework that day. What should happen? They should not get their half-hour screen time that day. But if they fulfill their responsibilities the next day, they should get that half-hour back. Punishments are not given for more than three days. Especially with young children, a child cannot keep a punishment longer than three days in mind; they won't even remember why they were punished. Therefore, correct punishment is in the form of deprivation of privileges, and this situation should be explained to the child in a kind but firm manner. ‘Kind but firm’ is the key phrase here.”

## Akademik Referans

DOI: [https://doi.org/10.32739/uha.id.62691](https://doi.org/10.32739/uha.id.62691)

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