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Responsibility & Logical Consequences: One Mom’s Conundrum

August 31 by Jessica Timmons

Teaching Kids Responsibility - Balancing the line between tough love and being there for your kids... This one really got me thinking.

So technically I'm taking suggestions here. I mean, I think we're doing it mostly right, if level of difficulty is any indication. Because so far, teaching our kids to be responsible little people seems to involve an awful lot of biting my tongue, sitting on my hands so I don't rush to do something the "right" way, and letting them fall flat on their own little faces sometimes. I’m all about modeling good behavior. I say please and thank you to my kiddos, and I expect to hear it back. I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Jessica, Parenting, The grown ups (that's you!) Tagged With: logical consequences, parenting, teaching kids responsibility

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