How To Correct Children: Inviting Good Behaviors

June 20, 2012

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MR says: Advice from a parenting author on dos and don'ts of correcting children.

Situation One

A mother says, “Alice I need you to take out the garbage.”

Alice rolls her eyes and walks away. She has obviously made up her mind not to follow the instruction.

Mother feels Alice needs some correction so she says, “Don't you look at me like that! Your behavior is disrespectful! Get back here and take out this trash or you will not get to play with friends today.”

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bridget said...

11:02 AM
on Jun 26, 2012

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Hey, my parents wouldn't put up with that. They taught us that the Lord was taking stock of our actions, and if we were disrespectful to them we were breaking the 10 commandments. (True!) They also told us to treat others as we would like to be treated. I'm sure most teens don't think about that when it comes to their parents. But I'm all for bringing out what the Lord has to say on the subject. The Lord trumps all the modern psycho-babble on the subject.

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