How Lack Of Discipline Breeds Trauma

I was listening to Catherine and Suzie talking.

"Mom, Shelly is having problems with Belinda again," Suzie shares. "She was caught shoplifting again, and the judge is threatening to send her to Juvenile Detention."

"What has that got to do with me?" Catherine inquired.

"You are her Grandmother. You have lots of wisdom to share with her."

"She is thirteen years old, isn't she?" Catherine asked.

"You don't know the age of your first grandchild mom?"

Catherine said, fighting to control the rage as the memories of the last time she saw her first grandchild stirred the pain and regret in her heart. She reminds, "ten years ago when she started to behave badly and I suggested how your sister should impose discipline, she told me that she is a baby. As she grew and disrespected everyone, bullied everyone I was removed from her life because my way of discipline was outdated and barbaric."

"It's her child Mom. She has a right to do what she wants," Suzie said.

"But it's the same discipline that raised her, helping her to gain various awards in school. The same methods that gave both of you full scholarships into the colleges of your choice. The same regulations that gave you your dream job and the success you are enjoying, along with the pleasures it accompanies. The same practice that earned you respect from your peers," Catherine reminds Suzie. 

 "Maybe she just wants better for her child," Suzie defends her sister's actions.

"We can live a better life than the one we came from. But we are never better than where we come from. And when we forget where we come from, we will get lost in an unknown world of chaos. Now that no one is able to control her you want my wisdom?"

"She is your grandchild," Suzie repeats.

"After the horse broke down the gate and escaped, I can't do anything to bring her back. The human brain isn't programmed to go back to the unknown. Which would be respect and discipline your sister neglected to teach her," Catherine explains.

Suzie sighed and said, "she isn't a horse, Mom."

Catherine replies, "If she was, your sister wouldn't need my wisdom. That child did everything none of you couldn't dare do as children. Discipline and respect must not only be taught, it must grow with the child and be practiced. Like your father and I did with all of you. It must be routine as eating, showering, sleeping, living and learning."

"We must do something Mom," Suzie begs.

"That is why Trauma or any traumatic episode changes humans. Traumatic incidence fixes and improves many of us lives because someone didn't do the right thing at the right time," Catherine alerts.

"Damn!" flew out of Suzie's mouth, and she said, "it isn't easy raising children."

"How would you know?" Catherine asked, glaring at her second child in knotted brows. "You haven't raised any yet?"

"I gave you and dad lots of trouble Mom," she confessed. "I remember most of the things I did as a child. But you never gave up on me. Is it too late to save Belinda?"

"It's never too late to save a child's life."

Discipline is as important to children as food, shelter, and clothing. It must also be routine because the lack of it destroys the perpetrator and their victims. Discipline must be taught and practiced in children from birth to grow with them. If not, then Trauma will become a pill that will cure with painful and unbearable side effects. When we remove discipline from our children's lives, we open the door to chaos.

Please check out my latest book of short inspiring stories and poems.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09YBM8R47?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

Thank you for reading this piece. I hope you enjoy it and will savor more from some brilliant writers on this platform.

https://shopping-feedback.today/fiction/immortal-affairs%3C/p%3E%3Cstyle data-emotion-css="14azzlx-P">.css-14azzlx-P{font-family:Droid Serif,Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;font-size:1.1875rem;-webkit-letter-spacing:0.01em;-moz-letter-spacing:0.01em;-ms-letter-spacing:0.01em;letter-spacing:0.01em;line-height:1.6;color:#1A1A1A;margin-top:32px;}

https://shopping-feedback.today/fiction/don-t-cry-over-spilled-coffee%3C/p%3E%3Cstyle data-emotion-css="14azzlx-P">.css-14azzlx-P{font-family:Droid Serif,Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;font-size:1.1875rem;-webkit-letter-spacing:0.01em;-moz-letter-spacing:0.01em;-ms-letter-spacing:0.01em;letter-spacing:0.01em;line-height:1.6;color:#1A1A1A;margin-top:32px;}

https://shopping-feedback.today/fiction/you-can-t-blame-all-your-problems-on-a-cockroach%3C/p%3E%3Cstyle data-emotion-css="14azzlx-P">.css-14azzlx-P{font-family:Droid Serif,Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;font-size:1.1875rem;-webkit-letter-spacing:0.01em;-moz-letter-spacing:0.01em;-ms-letter-spacing:0.01em;letter-spacing:0.01em;line-height:1.6;color:#1A1A1A;margin-top:32px;}