Good old spankings
raising children has gone downhill ever since spankings went out of style. Children today have quite the sense of entitlement that just didn't exist 30 years ago. Why? Because parent's are trying to be friends with their kids and not the guidance that they need. Plus, there needs to be *REAL* consequences to disobedience! Look, whenever one of my coworkers tells me about some exasperating thing their kid did and they complain about their lack of control of the kid, I look at them with disbelief....I tell them, that a child has only one job. And that is to push their boundries. A child is constantly learning. Imagine a child is pushing a glass of milk across a table. At what point do you instruct the child to stop pushing the glass before it falls to the floor? If you don't stop the child from knocking the glass onto the floor, then it will go on to think that this is normal and acceptable behaviour. You, the parent, need to set boundries...and the second thing you need to do is be consistant! Don't set a boundry and then allow the child to side step it when it's inconvenient for you to enforce the boundry...this send mixed signals.
Children need to do children things....and as a parent, you need to do parent things...you are *NOT* their friend...you are an authorative figure and sometimes that means meting out punishment.
