The punishments imposed on children are most of the times regarded as something negative. Specialists say the parents can punish their children, but should use only positive and peaceful methods that would make the little ones disciplined and would remove conflict situations. Psychologist Natalia Spatari, who works as a methodologist at the National Children’s Center ARTICO, has told Info-Prim Neo that the parents often do not know how to act in certain conflict situation. She said that she discusses related issues with parents of the children who attend the Center’s workshops. “We got used to the idea that the punishment is negative in character. Actually, this is not quite right. Even if we do not want, we punish our children. There are yet really negative punishments that make the children feel distrust. But we should use positive punishments for our children,” said the psychologist. According to Natalia Spatari, there are a number of positive punishments, including the ‘timeout’ that is used to calm down the sides involved in the conflict. This method consists of silence pauses when the child behaves badly or when two children are bickering. They are separated and put in different rooms so that they calm down. In a period, they are invited to discussions so as to solve the problem peacefully. Another method is the use of the day regime for children. It disciplines the children and eliminates many conflicts. For example, the children know when they should go to sleep, eat or play and there appear no related problems. The alternative method is when the children refuse to arrange the things in their rooms and the mother or father gives them two tasks of which they should choose one, like watering the flowers or collecting the toys. Natalia Spatari considers that these methods can be put on children until adolescence. The psychologist also said that the parents should notice the positive things done by their children and encourage them to do more such things.