PARENTING THURSDAY: Good Enough

PARENTING THURSDAY: Good Enough

We hope for our children to grow up as contributing and respected members of a greater world. There are also some unhealthy examples out there in society of demanding respect and staking a claim. Maybe there is more to it than just raising kids to “do as I say, not what I do.”

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PARENTING THURSDAY:R-E-S-P-E-C-T

PARENTING THURSDAY:R-E-S-P-E-C-T

As parents, we might believe that in order for their child to be disciplined, they must be made to feel badly about their behavior, and that without a particular enforced consequence, children will lack responsibility. Consequence is important, but are they teaching tools? Do you need to set a consequence as a punishment to change certain behaviors? Are they always necessary?

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