I found these helpful hints from Focus on the Family on a tag stuck to some clothes. I liked it a lot so put it up here to share with you. I didn’t ask the authors, James Dobson, Inc. for permission but I’m guessing they will be ok with me sharing thier thoughts amoungst my friends. I had a look for thier website too but couldn’t find it. Maybe they will contact me if they get upset with the reproduction???
- Children thrive best in an atmosphere of guenuine love and undergirded by reasonable, consistent discipline.
- Heredity does not equip a child with proper attitudes: children learn only what they are taught!
- The footsteps a child follows are most likely to be the ones his parents thought they covered up.
- Praise and criticism at home should be distributed as evenly as possible.
- It is through loving control that parents ecpress personal worth to a child.
- If you never allow a child to want something, he’ll never enjoy the plreasure of receiving it.
- There are so many necessary “no’s” in life that we should say “yes” whenever we can.
- Grandparents can be invaluable to the world of little people. For one thing, “They are the only grown-ups who have time.”
- trying to control children by yelling is as utterly futile as trying to steer a car by honking the horn.
- Loving discipline cncourages a child to respect other epople and live as a responsible, constructive citizen.
