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Self-Discipline and Children, Question Your Beliefs, Setting New…
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Question Your Beliefs
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be prepared to admit that you could be wrong, because you are going to make more mistakes than you can imagine.
Perhaps the most important responsibility you have as a parent is to instill values in your children, especially the value of selfdiscipline.
One of the most common desires that parents have for their children is to raise them with a sense of self-responsibility and self-control.
Parents want their children to be self-disciplined and to practice self-mastery and self-denial, or the ability to delay gratification.
Parents want their children to be self-disciplined and to practice self-mastery and self-denial, or the ability to delay gratification.
Setting New Priorities
When you get married, your life goes though a major shift. Your lifestyle changes, and many of your common activities lose their importance and urgency.
, it is not uncommon for couples to change their lives completely when their first child is born. They cut back or discontinue many of their previous social activities.
They begin to build a different life together around their home and children. The children become the focus of their time and attention. The children become the primary subject of their conversation.
Responsible parents approach childrearing as the most important part of their lives. They plan and organize their time and activities so they can fulfill this responsibility at a high level.
Responsible parents approach childrearing as the most important part of their lives. They plan and organize their time and activities so they can fulfill this responsibility at a high level.
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Long-Term Thinking
When you realize that everything that you do or fail to do with your children in their formative years will have a lasting impact for generations to come, you become far more thoughtful and sensitive to the things you say and the way you treat them.
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They see and experience each word and reaction of their parents, and they incorporate those words and actions into their worldview and self-image.
. When that dysfunctional adult was a child, their parents did or said things to them that hurt them, confused them, scared them, and created within them feelings of insrity, anger, and inferiority.
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Set a Good Example
The most powerful influence you have on your children is the example that you set for them all the time that they are growing up.
They measure and analyze your behaviors, especially when you are under stress.
Your example sets the standard that they consider to be the normal way that adults act in various circumstances, especially when under stress.
Your children, if they admire and respect your example, will strive to emulate you while they are growing up and then continuing on for the rest of their lives.
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