I read a really interesting post about someone learning his lesson as a child and thought it is a really good example of fine parenting.
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?like_id=1990748&node_id=1953527&op=ilikeit
I was perhaps 9 years old when it happened.
I had a terrible habit as a kid to want to sleep in until the last possible moment. Ok, who am I kidding? I still do that. I’m usually about 30 seconds late for work everyday. But when I was a kid, this drove my mother to the brink of sanity. She put up with it for a long time, always managing to get me roused and dressed, books in hand and out the door for school just in the nick of time. Sometimes she’d peek her head in my bedroom door every 10 minutes and check in, making sure I was on track. And generally I managed to get myself together with seconds to spare. But there WAS that one time…
6:45am Mom: “Sweetie, it’s time to get up and get dressed.” Me: “Uhhhhaaaaaaaaaaamffff…”
6:55am Mom: “Honey, we have to leave at 7:30 if we’re going to get you to school on time. Please get up . . . → Read More: How to discipline your child (part 1)
