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If a child has a dream catcher in his room to help him have good dreams should you take the dream catcher away if the child is not behaving?
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∙ 14y ago
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That would seem to be both counter productive and possibly cruel. The dream catcher presumably helps provide a safety net and stabilizes the child's dreams, either by suggestion or energetic action. If the child's dreams are disturbed that would seem to tend to make the child act out more.
It is also possibly cruel because you are teaching the child that you will withhold inner safety if they do not behave. The message you send is that the adult will abandon their role as protector of said child, and essentially invite mental/psychic harm. That, on top of already sending them the message that they have been bad, invites nightmares. A spanking would be less damaging in the long run, and less cruel.
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If he is attached to it, you could threaten him (not meanly) that if he doesn't start behaving you will take it away. Then if he still doesn't behave, then you should probably take it away for one night, then give it back. You would take it away just to show him that you are serious about taking it away from him.
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... I don't know. I think that if you gave it to the child saying that it would help him have good dreams, that the threat of bad dreams is kind of a harsher threat than you need to make. Taking away a favorite toy or grounding the child or something like that I would think would have less challenging psychological implications.
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∙ 14y ago
Taking away the dream catcher may not be an effective disciplinary measure. Instead, it would be more beneficial to address the child's behavior directly, discuss the reasons behind their misbehavior, and encourage open communication. Utilizing positive reinforcement strategies or setting appropriate consequences for their actions can be more helpful in teaching children to behave appropriately.
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