Do you force your child to do something?

Honour the child’s will. NO means NO. You can persuade, convince, but the decision should be made by the child. It will not always be correct, sometimes after talking with their parent they will change their opinion. Parents often are pleasantly surprised when a child takes the initiative on their own, matures to decisions, understands. Children are most often forced in everyday life to apologise to someone, share toys, exercise, study, read, dress, brush their teeth, take a bath. A child should not do “something” just because someone is punishing them to do so. A child’s actions should flow from their freedom. It’s not always the case that everything will be as the child wishes, but one of the universal human needs is the need for cooperation. The child does something because they know that mum/dad asked them for it, they must understand that they depend on it, e.g. their health depends on it.