Model What You Want

Everyday you teach - sometimes in words but, more often in your behavior. For example, when kids see you read a book, they learn that you value literacy. Likewise, when they see your patience with a painfully slow sales clerk, they learn tolerance.

Nearly 80% of what children learn is from what they see acted out before their eyes - they're visual learners!
Want generous kids? Give help/money to people.
Want your kids to respect the teacher? Show respect him/her.
Want your kids to listen to you? Listen to them.

In your daily discipline remember, actions really do "speak" louder than words.

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©Copyright, 2011 Brenda Nixon.
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Do You Really Love Your Child?

"Of course I love my kid!” most parents insist.

However, I frequently see and work with parents who are ambivalent - wishy washy - about setting rules and boundaries for their children. Why? One reason is they fret that their “kids will hate them." Instead of hating their parents, children actually respect and admire those who take the time to love them through rules, boundaries, and limitations.

I've often said, anyone can discipline your child without love but, you cannot really love your child without disciplining him/her.
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Give Your Child True Security

Want to meet your child's emotional need for security? Then give him rules and limits.

Kids need to feel adults are in control of situations. I like the way Wesley H. Fleming states it in his book, Raising Children on Purpose , "In the absence of rules and limits, a child feels insecure. Do you remember how you felt in grade school when there was no adult supervision on the playground? Remember the bullies? Remember your frustration as the rules of the kickball game were ignored or kept changing? Children need rules and limits to feel protected."

In your daily discipline, give your child security and safety through consistent, reasonable rules and limits.

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