How Too Many Freedoms Leads to Disobedience
You want your child to learn to make decisions and have freedom to do so, but allowing it at too young of an age will only lead to disobedience. When …
Funnel
As your child gets older, you need to allow your child have more freedoms without giving too many freedoms. Read these posts to understand the funnel.
Wise In Your Own Eyes Explained
How “wise in your own eyes” leads to conflict between you and your child. Understand what decision-making freedoms to allow your child to have. While our little ones are babies, …
How to Keep Siblings in the Funnel
How to parent more than one child and keep rules and privileges age appropriate for each child. Keep children in the funnel. To parent inside the funnel means that you …
How to Teach a Child How to Make Decisions
How to Teach a Child How to Make Decisions. How to set your child up for success to make informed decisions and accept the consequences of those decisions. This is …
Commanding Obedience within Reason
Kaitlyn and I recently read The Little Prince together. As we were reading along, there were a lot of gems of wisdom throughout that I saw differently now that I am …
How to Set Boundaries
Last week, we talked about why you set boundaries with your children. As a quick review, we set boundaries to protect health and safety, and to guide morals. But just how …
Constantly Needing to Correct the Child
Shortly before my third child was born, I wrote a post on Siblings and the Funnel. In it, I cautioned parents against allowing younger siblings the same freedoms as the older …