Works For Me Wednesday: Growing Pains - Testing Boundaries
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 11:14AM MAD21 By MAD21
We've had a stressful week or two in our house. I'll call it growing pains. You know the kind, -- when your kids decide to start testing the boundaries and rules. I have to say that I think this is one of the most difficult things to deal with as a parent. I don't know about you, but I don't like feeling like a bully or having an authoritarian household. But there comes a time when our kids need to learn that they don't always get a say, and they need to get their sense of entitlement under control.
It's bad enough when your kids misbehave at home, but when the disrespect starts to show up in other places like school, there needs to be some serious action to get them under control.
We feel, as most parents do, that it's important our children do their best at school. Here are some things we do to help our kids prepare for their day: