Tip #9 The Only 3 Rules Your Family Needs And The Power Of Natural Consequences
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Show Notes
A huge part of the exhaustion and drain of parenting comes from our need to teach our children how to be good people. What if you didn’t need to teach so much? What you need is to be the respectful, responsible person you want your child to become. Arbitrary consequences are disrespectful of a child and interfere with the powerful teaching of natural consequences—which require allowing rather than teaching. Respect of self and others means having a clarity of boundaries that makes parenting life much easier and less complicated for your children to figure out. But of course, respecting yourself may go against everything you learned as a child.
Bonnie Harris, MS.Ed., director of Connective Parenting, 30+ years of coaching, teaching, and writing for parents.
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