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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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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