The best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.

Every child's first school is home and first teacher is the parent. A child often tries to copy what his parents or care taker do, than what they say him to do. So to make a statement that the best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones, will mean parents at home should only praise a child for good things and not scold or be strict with him, which will eventually help him improve or overcome his weaknesses since his early formative years. So I disagree with the statement, because praising and crticizing should happen on case by case basis, and no bad actions should be ignored, if one wants a child to be a strong and independent human.

First of all, the best way to teach is to make a child learn and follow rules, share knowledge, build a good foundation for a child's future by inculcating morals, principles, and so on. The best way to teach can be more than praising. Praising for good actions does wonders on little human as they feel more motivated to do good things. It does give them realization that what they are doing is right, ethical. But when they go wrong, or do things which are wrong like shouting, yelling, robbing - parents or teachers should take some serious actions like criticizing, grounding them for few weeks or any type of punishment which makes them realize that their action was not justifiable and they will admonished by their parents. The next time, child will twice before committing the same mistake as they are aware about the consequences. For instance, in the above case if the parent had ignored their child's mistake considering their tender age, the child would have done the same mistakes again thereby making matters ,more complex.

Nevertheless, praising and admonishing is a part and parcel of growing up. They are like the two sides of a same coin. Good actions bring you love and praise, bad actions bring you anger from your parents. Ignoring negative actions can be seen by a child as the acceptance sign from their parents, but in a neutral way. For example, if a child tries to bully a fellow friend in school, and the parents ignore his actions, thinking praising his child's good actions might help him from bullying his friend will be wrong. Child might think bullying is acceptable, condoned by parents but it's only not praise worthy, so what why not keep bullying because it's fun and brings notoriety to him in his junior school. Rather that teaching good lessons to a child, one might just aggravate the problem by ignoring these negative actions in a child's formative year. Psychology says that people should be able to handle both praise and criticisms in their early childhood so that they turn in to a good ans sociable human being their later years of life. By only praising and ignoring negative actions, one is only making a child weak, as he won't be open to constructive criticisms from his peers in his later years.

One might argue that a child is like a clay, they get shape as and how they are molded. So to teach them something, is better to praise positive actions and negative ones. An exceptional case can be where a child in known to generally follow rules and instructions and is a obedient child. But once does something wrong for first time, without knowing what he has done is harmful, or unethical. In this case it is okay to ignore his actions, because they are innocent and insincere in themselves, as they parents don't see any chances of repeating this mistake again by the child.

So to conclude, every child is different ans peculiar habits in themselves. Every parent knows what works for their child, but surely every parent will agree that teaching a child includes a little of praising, a little amount of scolding and lots of love too.