Who has the right to discipline a child ...

if child aint mine the authority to discipline is the the parents or somene who bring the kid/s in my house.

i will only disciplining it when i am assigned to do to so but if i am not i wont bother.

If a child is being disobedient then I will say something to that child. If it continues and the parent won't say anything then I will say something to the parent. I want my kids to respect other peoples home and if they don't then I get onto my kids for it. Now if the children start arguing about something or something happens then I try to steer their interest into something else and just keep a closer eye on them.

it's the parents responsibility, if they are in your home and there child is acting up, and they don't do anything about it then that's extremely rude, and you should say something to the parent, no the friend has no right to say anything to your child in your home while you are there. if you do not see them acting up then it's really not fair to discipline because it wasn't seen, you wouldn't discipline your child if you didn't see it. and if this behavior continues and the parent does nothing then don't invite them over anymore.

I don't have kids yet but when I do if another child comes to my house then I have the right to tell them what to do if the parent doesn't say anything to them. I will wait and see if they say anything but if they say nothign and the child keeps doing something wrong then i think i am should be allowed to tell them to stop what they are doing or go home .

wow, that is too funny because we were just talking about this the other day at my son's birthday party. my husband's sister (whom he is not very close with anyway) has 4 children and they are no longer welcome at our house. her kids are complete terrors, and she makes no effort whatsoever to discipline them or watch them. they are 1, 5, 8 and 10. the oldest 2 have been expelled from school for various reasons, they hit and kick and use curse words, and we do not trust them around our children. there have been many issues with these children, most of which are too long to get into now, but some of them have been issues regarding danger (the 5 year old was caught in his room with a kitchen knife!) sorry, but we do not want our kids exposed to that. and like i said, his sister will come over for a birthday party or whatever and just let the kids run wild in our house, jumping on furniture, fighting, kicking and punching eachother, whining and crying and breaking toys, and she does not say a word. she also does not care if anyone else disciplines them- she almost expects others to do it for her- but that is not my job. i have 2 of my own to take care of. don't get me wrong, my children are not perfect- no one's are- but they know better than to do certain things, and if they misbehave they will get punished. my brother and sister also have kids, and we will discipline eachother's kids if we need to. i trust them and vice-versa, no matter whose house we are in.

that depends on the relationship you have with your friend. when something has happened and i was not there too see it. i don't take sides. each child would have to take a time out. if i have a child in my home and their parent is not there, then i feel i have the right to tell them right from wrong. but if their parent is there then i let them handle it.

again, it depends on your relationship with your friend. i know with my friends, if their child does something in my home, then i look to the parent to talk to their child, but if they don't you better know i am going to handle it. but that's because i have a very close reltionship with my friends. i rather not have children in my home that i can not handle or deal with because their parents don't feel it's the right thing to do. my friends are my family

I think it is the parent who have the right to discipline their kids, when other kids come to my home, I still trust the parents of the kids to look after their kids, and if something bad happened and my kid is hurt I will just tell it to the kid's parents, I know some parents don't like it when people or other people discipline their kids, I am like that too, for me it is my right solely (and my siblings too) to discipline my kids because I know how to treat them when they did something bad, what other's people technique on discipling theirs might not work for my kids and may just bring confusions to my kids.

well, the right to discipline a kid is with all the people in this world. just because it is my kid one should not yell or beat the sh*t outta the kid, which normally happens. instead i think people should try and understand kids. they are fragile, and their reactions and statements count a lot.
1. if a child is being disobidient, then i think you should talk to the kid about it, try and explain him the consequences of his action and its troubling others. i wont shout just because its my home nor should the other person should shout on the kid. it might leave a scar on his memory, instead b calm and polite. if no one saw the thing that happened and my kid came to tell me, i would judge the situation according to the problem thats happened, and act accordingly. as i said no1 has the right to yell at a kid, they have a very fragile mind, and should be handled carefully. its a responsibility of us, the elders to help kids out, make them understand the things. i have many small kid bro and sis. i never yelled at them in my entire lifetime, but instead carried them around, gave them choclates and made them understand the things like a big bro should, and they changed after that and never repeated the mistake.
samtaylorskykierajen i would suggest a movie which was made by Mr. Amir Khan in India, called Taare Zameen Par. i will get you a link if you want if i get a English translation of this movie. it handles the same issue of kids in a very touching way.

No one has the right to yell at your child in your home or anyone else's. You should keep your child respectful the best you can and if by chance they do something wrong in someone elses home, the parents should call you and let YOU decide the punishment for your own child. I also beleive that we shouldn't discipline someone elses child in our own home either. It goes both ways. We go to their parents and let them do what should be done. If they don't fix the problem and they are acting up in your house again, then talk to the parents again and after 3 chances, you should ask them to leave nicely because their child is disturbing the rest of your guests or their being a bad influence on your children or whatever the circumstance may be. Just be honest. Some parents just don't care and don't have the respect for other people's homes. Otherwise they are just kids and laugh it off and hope the parents are good parents and take care of the situation themselves. That's just my opinion.

Oh my god, I don't want to get banned or booted for ranting but the idea of giving a child a treat like chocolate for miss behaving is unbelievable. I NEVER beat my children, I did yell them, punish them, tell them what they did wrong and made sure there were consequences for their actions but to reward for bad behavior just encourages more bad behavior! I have punished others children in my homes if the parents did not, usually making them sit in one place and not participate with the others for a set amount of time. I believe it is the parents responsibility but unfortunately there is too much "progressive" parenting and I don't like to see my home trashed because "boys will be boys" or "that's okay, you didn't mean it"