PARENTING THURSDAY: The Model
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In teaching our children about compassion and empathy, we have to be very careful not to fall into the trap of “doing what I say, not as I do”. We need to be aware that they see how we behave.
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PARENTING THURSDAY:R-E-S-P-E-C-T
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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?
Read MorePARENTING THURSDAY: You Gotta Be
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Values are transmitted from generation to generation - they do this by watching their parents and important elders act and interact with each other. This informs and undergirds their own value system as they grow.
Read MorePARENTING THURSDAY: Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow
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You might want your child to be “a good kid”, but what does that really mean? What do you want them to be like as adults?
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