![]() ![]() ![]() Not the deep-hidden-river I-bore-you-so-I-will-have-to-like-you type of love, but the visible, hug-and-kiss, lavish-compliment, interested-audience kind. …Instead of giving your child too much freedom, too much money, and all the responsibility for his actions, try giving him limited freedom and money, a strict code of behavior, and oceans and gallons and mountains of love. Do not allow him to keep the household in a continual uproar. Demand that the adolescent go along with the family routine. Rebelling against nothing is very frustrating. Lay down strict rules of behavior and enforce them. He thought that the most intelligent approach to the problem was to understand that the adolescent, just by the nature of the beast, is going to chafe and rebel and he needs something specific to chafe and rebel against. He said that there was entirely too much “understanding,” actually excusing of the adolescent, his lack of manners, selfishness, tantrums, and so on. He said that adolescence was a difficult period but entirely normal and his sympathies were with the parents, not the adolescents. Wilburforce was wonderful! He sounded as if he had had adolescent children. ![]()
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