Parenting

Understanding Your Teen’s Behavior

Your baby is now a teenager, going through all of the teenage rites of passage. Between school, friends, God, and a social life, their lives seem to be a foreign country to you. The little boy or girl that once told you everything now has to be hounded to give you even a snippet of thought. Yet there are three things you should know about what is going on in your Christian teen’s head that will make your relationship a little better? Read the rest of this entry »

1. Discipline your children only when you lose your temper. Let them get away with anything until you’re fed up; then, in a spirit of hostility and anger, let ‘em have it! Blow your top, holler, get wild, clobber them and really make a brawl out of it. The children will get a bang out of you.
2. Don’t make yourself approachable, you might have to listen and reason with them. If you get too chummy, they’ll want to talk things over with you. And who’s got time to waste with kids? You’ve got more important things to do.
3. If they’ve done wrong, never let them forget it. Keep rubbing it in; they’ll loathe you for it.
4. Give your child all the spending money he wants; don’t make him earn it. Money in large quantities is an acceptable substitute for love. After awhile he’ll want only your money and couldn’t care less about you. It’s something like starving him on cream puffs.
5. Compare your child with someone else to make him smarten up. Use that beautiful expression, “Why can’t you be like Johnny?” He’ll despise you and Johnny both!
6. Mother and father should disagree in regard to the rules for their youngsters. Children will then learn to play one parent against the other.
7. Never let the kids think for themselves. They haven’t the equipment. (The reason may be in their heredity or environment). Make all the decisions for them so they’ll never be able to handle life.
8. Treat them with suspicion. Never trust the sneaky little characters.