You are always exactly a week away from heaven, or a week away from hell. If you stick to your guns and hold your boundaries, blissful cooperation is right around the corner. But if you give up at day three all of your effort will be declared officially worthless. And the kids win.
Apparently this is a lesson I supposedly received more than one time while working at the wilderness camp. John swears he said it to us as our trainer, and repeated it again throughout his private tutoring sessions with me (aka: dating). Somehow, like most of that year of my life, such important nuggets of wisdom all seem like a bit of a blur.
This is what child-inflicted stress can do to a person, people.
This is why we continue to have more children after the first two nearly killed us.
Having forgotten this nugget, I had been recently toying with the idea of implementing some creativity into my discipline style. Before I go on, Continue reading “How to Make Your Child Obey (Part 2)”
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