I'll be the first to admit it- too often I discipline my kids for behavior that if I am honest is annoying but not wrong. I'll treat it as if it is wrong and I'll hand out consequences as if the action was wrong, but in reality, nothing wrong took place. No physical harm to a sibling. No lie told. No toy stolen. No words meant to cut down. The behavior- at the time- simply annoyed me and so I reacted with discipline.
These are never my finest moments. And while I am sure people who work with kids more closely than I- teachers, counselors, youth workers, etc- have already learned this lesson, I am a slow learned as I continue to muddy the two.
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