I don't advocate any child following in their parent's footsteps when their parent's footsteps are as crooked as mine are.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My theory is children don't do what you tell them to do, they do what you do. You have to always do the right thing because they follow you.
Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace.
I am always suspicious of those who impose 'rules' on child rearing. Every child is different in terms of temperament and learning, and every parent responds to a particular child, not some generalized infant or youngster.
A kid never listens to what his parents tell him to do. The parents actually act as an example of what their kids themselves do.
The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
I don't claim to know everything about parenting, but I do know parents do their children a disservice by constantly sugarcoating their shortcomings to protect their feelings.
My father felt that children should make their own way.
In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught.