Winning Parenting Tips: Be Consistent
Consistency is key to successfully teaching your son or daughter right from wrong when correcting them. It helps prevent minor wrongs and bad conduct from later becoming bigger wrongs. You must stand strong and really mean it when you say, “Turn off the television now”or ”no computer game time because you did not tidy up your room”.
Consistency shows your son or daughter there are specific outcomes for wrongs and improper or unacceptable deeds or conduct.
Inconsistency when correcting effectively causes you answerable for for your children’s wrongs and will not demonstrate to them how to be responsible for their actions.
It’s also important that each partner is consistent with the disciplinary code. If one parent is too rigid and the other is too soft, the son or daughter will hook into that and attempt to steer the circumstances to his or her gain. Parents must be in unison on disciplinary action beforehand and make a commitment to each other to be consistent in applying and following through with the consequences. Often this may be particularly difficult if the child’s parents are separated or divorced. Even though you might not be togethercrucial that both parents have a common ground. Candidly and frankly debate these boundaries with your former spouse and your son or daughter beforehand, so that if discipline is required, the consequences of such mischief are fully appreciated in advance.
Any discord between parents should bethrashed out out of the child’s earshot.
Always remember, consistency refers to being steadfast, even when doing so is extremely demanding or arduous. It can sometimes be unwelcome to arrive home after a demanding day at work only to find a hard night of parenting in store for you.
Your son or daughter will consistently test the parameters and ‘push the envelope’ with you to check if there’s any leeway in those consequences. By being steadfast you are proving there is not and that you trust them to do nothing less than take ownership for their own behavior.
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