“It’s really important to be able to give your kids a fair chance to achieve their goals,” says Nancy Rittenberger, a teacher at St. Charles Community College in New York. “It’s important to be able to teach and to play, and it’s important to have a positive experience with your kids, and to be able to take a chance on them.
There are also lots of stories about mothers who wanted to teach their sons to not get into trouble, but were afraid to try because they didn’t want their kids to be seen as “bad” kids. Not all mothers were so willing to take a chance with their sons.
Nancy Rittenberger, a teacher at St. Charles Community College in New York. Its important to be able to teach and to play, and its important to have a positive experience with your kids, and to be able to take a chance on them.There are also lots of stories about mothers who wanted to teach their sons to not get into trouble, but were afraid to try because they didnt want their kids to be seen as bad kids.
I think it is incredibly smart, but also incredibly naive of parents to think that they can just come out of the gate saying, “Look, I’m going to teach you about the importance of not getting into trouble. We’ll teach you about what you can and cannot do, about how you have to act, and how you should act when you’re in trouble.
Parents can do that, but they dont have to. To be sure, kids are still kids. Theyre not grown-ups and theyre not going to be able to stop all their bad behavior, but they can definitely take steps to limit their bad behavior, and that should be the goal.
And if you can’t stop them, then you can’t go back to being good at them, and that should be the goal.
I always wonder about parents who seem to know what they’re doing but not what their kids are doing, or why they’re doing it. When I was in school, I was a good student, I did my homework, and I got good grades. But I was also a bad kid, and I was always getting into trouble (and I mean getting into trouble physically, not just verbal).
This is one of the best quotes I’ve ever read about how parents can be too involved in their children’s education. I have never had a parent who was particularly involved, but I have had parents who are just not aware that their kids are in trouble or that they need help. The point is that your kids should not be playing with a set list of rules and consequences all the time, and if they are, then you need to be involved to have any hope of stopping the bad behaviors.
All of our discussions about peer pressure have been focused on how to overcome the problem of peer pressure. You can read “You must have a peer pressure policy on your child.