Personal Parenting Style - Part 2 -- Adolescent Psychology Applied to Education

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Subject: Personal Parenting Style - Part 2

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Carmen Davis

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Date Posted: 19:54:48 03/23/08 Sun

As for my discipline methods, I use what I feel is effective for what they have done. I believe in talking to your child first about what they have done. It is not that you feel they know better, it is about letting them tell you why they did what they did. We often times do not listen to our children and they act out to get the attention. I express respect to my boys and I tell them as long as they show respect, they can demand respect. If I find that after I talked to them, they continue to do the same thing, I will spank them and it has been effective but when I spank my children, I explain to them why I did it and I assure them I love them, that is why I had to go to that extreme because if I didn�t love them, I wouldn�t care about what they did. I have told my oldest son to tell me when he is angry with me because just because I am an adult doesn�t always make me right�I have to allow him to be mad at me because I just spanked him and he didn�t like it. I am not going to let them suppress their feelings. A lot of people do not agree with my parenting style of the open relationship I have with my kids but I remind them that I am their mother not their friend but they know as being their mother, I am here to protect them and guide them. Part of protecting and guiding them is listening to them and giving them the same respect I demand from them. I am blessed to have to well mannered boys but it isn't easy raising them in this society.

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