Nine pages into "You're Not the Boss of Me, Brat-Proofing Your 4 to 12-year-old Child" by Betsy Brown Braun and I am too traumatized to continue reading.
Evidently everything my children are doing that makes me crazy is the result of them taking on my bad habits. The book opens with a clear explanation of the "do what I say not what I do" contradiction. Apparently my kids are hearing my actions loud & clear and not listening to what I tell them.
Hopefully it just seems worse because there are more of them than me....
Promise to keep reading.
I worry about this the most! When my children act entitled or snobby, I want to cry and crawl under a rock. If I teach them anything, I hope it is to be kind and good to everyone. Seems unlikely sometimes that my lesson is getting through. I know intuitively that less is more, but that is difficult sometimes...
ReplyDeleteDefinately difficult in the materialistic society we live in. I want to cringe sometimes when I hear the things that come out of my children's mouth and I know they are not meant to be unkind or selfish. But as you said teaching kindness is the way to go! Please share some of the ways you do that...
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