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Recognizing D-words I didn’t consider those D-words when I became a mom. When we became parents, we didn’t sit down and discuss the things for which we planned to discipline our kids. I think we knew we agreed on the important things, but it might have helped had we isolated behavior into three separate categories….
It can’t come out if it doesn’t go in. I heard these words often as a child: What goes in, comes out. That’s because our attitudes bred of boredom, anger, or laziness came out in work or in play. When I was a kid at home, there were words I never considered saying because I…
Making my bed. I don’t remember having rules about making our beds when I was a kid. My mother’s bed was always made, and she seldom came upstairs to check our rooms. Sometimes the beds got made, and sometimes not. Forming a new habit is easiest if a person does something (or refrains from doing something)…
Nix Entitled in your vocabulary. The word entitled should not be in a parents’ vocabulary. Oh, we might not say it, but we certainly think it. How do I know? When our six were in school, every end-of-summer, we had discussion with other parents. We had our ideas of which teacher we hoped our child got…
Who to believe? Sometimes I’ve totally failed to ask the right question. I’ve been guilty of believing a child or an adult when I heard their story without listening to the other side. Sometimes it was because I trusted the adult; other times it was because the story was so convincing that I couldn’t imagine…
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