In the lecture that I heard, the professor's view on effective discipline is that the parents should not use

physical punishment, but use a discipline based on setting limits and encouraging good behaviour. In the
lecture it is stated that some pshichologysts admit that physical punishment should not be used for the
children that are under the age of two, while other psichologysts claim that physical punishment should
not be used at all when raising a child, because punishing a child means actually harming them, so they
should use another way of disciplining, that would actually teach them something.

Those recommendations and views are mostly contrary to what is happening in the real world. The
reading implies that most parents are using threat of physical punishment, and some are actually
spanking their children to discipline them, even if the studies show us that the children who are the
victims of this kind of 'discipline methods' may start to fear or hate their parents at some point.

The right way to discipline a child, according to the lecture, is to give him a set of limits, and to
encourage the positive behaviour