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You know, every parent I know loves good behavior, but hates discipline.
How about you?
Do you love your little angels, but hate the drama and the stress that inevitably bubbles up when they misbehave and you are the one with the unenviable task of setting them straight?
What if we could keep the good behavior, but eliminate the stress and drama associated with discipline?
It’s not a wild-eyed fantasy or a pipe dream. If you are a part of our A Fine Parent Community for long enough, you know we’re all about research-backed, practical action-taking.
What say, we apply that same spirit to discipline?
Feel up for a little challenge?
(This article is a part of our series on Inspiring Stories)
She lay in the hospital bed exhausted. She was 17 years old and had just given birth to a baby.
Normally, the delivery rooms of Mercy Hospital are filled with joy and celebration. On the day that Josh Shipp was born however, the tears streaming down his mother’s cheeks weren’t those of joy.
What had started out as an exciting prom night had turned into a sobering ordeal of teen-pregnancy, and lying there on that hospital bed, Josh’s mother had a critical decision to make.
She decided she wasn’t ready to take on the responsibility of raising a baby.
And just like that, Josh became an Orphan.
At the tender age of a newborn infant, he entered the foster care system – one of the 115,000 children in America waiting for adoption.
Except, in Josh’s case, adoption never quite happened.
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(This article is part of our series on Habits.)
Has this ever happened to you?
You decide very firmly that you will not nag and scream at your kids, come what may.
And the very next minute your kids do the one thing that you just cannot stand. And before you know it, you are screaming at them like only a raving lunatic, or a very frustrated parent, can. And things go downhill faster than you can say “Not agaaaain!”
Yep. We’ve all been there.
I just happened to be there (for the umpteenth time!) while I was reading the book The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
And suddenly a light bulb went on.
(This article is part of our series on Habits.)
Ever wonder why some routines stick, while others fall flat?
Maybe you’ve got your kids into the habit of getting to bed on time each night, but come morning, try as you might, you can’t get them out of bed and out the door on time without a few screaming matches… (or is it the other way round?)
What gives?
Wouldn’t it be great if we could just figure out the secret of creating habits consistently?
As it turns out, there is a method to this madness!