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Punishment and Discipline

To reflect on your own personal beliefs about punishment and discipline, use the questions to guide your original response and comments on the posts of at least two classmates.

• What kind of discipline did you experience as a child? How has it affected your life, your attitudes, and your self-esteem?
• Observe a group of young children on the playground. Determine which children seem to be socially competent and which children seem to be aggressive’; listen carefully to their interactions. Describe how adult models might have contributed to the competence level of both groups.
• How would you explain to someone the fundamental differences between punishment and discipline? Can you relate those differences to the differences between moral autonomy and heteronomy (from Module 1)?