The greatest thing you can do as a parent is to be resilient and stay the cause.
Are you parenting a child or teenager or perhaps both?
Parenting can be a challenge at the best of times.
The greatest thing you can do as a parent is to be resilient and stay the cause.
Continue to show your child that you love them, regardless of their response.
Continue to be deliberate with talking to them.
One suggestion is to ask your child to join you each evening or when it is best for the both of you at the table or couch just to sit and talk.
You might want to throw in a regular card game or something that you both enjoy.
Make this a regular thing. Don’t overdo it. Don’t just be their friend.
You are their parent and regardless of what they say or do, they need you to be their parent.
Parenting does not mean you have to yell and shout. The best way is to firmly, but calmly tell them what you expect of them.
Depending upon how important the task is, you may need to decide what is the best punishment if the task is not done. For example, if you agree that your child needs to help you with the dishes, if they don’t do, they they are required to do it an extra night instead of just once.
Make sure that you enforce the rule, so that they get used to helping you on the one night a week that you have asked them to.
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