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.
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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.
Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.
Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving.
Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.
You can't say one thing and behave another way. Kids learn more from watching you in life than what you say to them.
After I had my kids, I realized it's pretty much all about instinct - you have to do what's right for you. Everyone has an opinion, but it was all about what you do or don't do. I was so overloaded, so I let my children dictate the way things were supposed to go, and things fell into place.
Parents are supposed to instill a sense of right and wrong in their children and then keep up the due diligence necessary to make sure they don't veer off that path.
When you act, you're being asked to pretend in a very rigid, controlled environment. It's very un-childlike. So a lot of times, when you put kids in that situation, you hope they have a better support system outside of what they're doing to bring them back to reality at the end of the day and to keep them well-rounded.
As parents, we teach our children to do what's right.
You have to discipline your children, or they won't respect you, law enforcement or God or anyone else.
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