PARENTING THURSDAY: We Work It Out

PARENTING THURSDAY: We Work It Out

We all make mistakes as parents. There are times when, no matter how loving, nurturing, and understanding we are with our children, we lose it or say and do things that we later regret. Rather than contemplating IF mistakes are made by parents in their attempts to be competent, the question is HOW we deal with these mistakes, and repair the damage caused.

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PARENTING THURSDAY: It’s Only Natural

PARENTING THURSDAY: It’s Only Natural

When a child carries out a positive or a negative action, then a natural consequence follows as a logical result or said action of behavior. However, in parenting, our interpretation of ‘logical consequence’ isn’t always the same as a natural one. Sometimes parents can stretch their own logic and produce a manipulated, artificial consequence instead.

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