Disciplining Your Kids with Love and Limits, Part 3
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 20 August 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
It's important to keep your emotions out of it when disciplining a child you’ve had to tell the same thing repeatedly. John and Danny discuss the importance of pre-teaching and sometimes just backing off for the moment when a child explodes with anger.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast. You can find more helpful advice at |
| 0:06.8 | Focus on the Family.com slash parenting podcast. |
| 0:11.2 | I'm not sure any parent really understands what they're getting into and I'm sure I don't |
| 0:17.3 | want to scare you if you're about to have kids but there is something called repetition |
| 0:22.2 | and you are going to endure repetition like you have never |
| 0:26.2 | ever thought possible. |
| 0:28.4 | From telling your kids things, say please, say thank you, etc, pick up the toys or from hearing things from them. |
| 0:35.7 | Mommy mommy mommy mommy mommy mommy mommy |
| 0:38.1 | it goes on and on |
| 0:40.1 | there is a boundary line of respect of honoring others in the household and we have to learn to be part of the team and |
| 0:48.4 | That repetition is certainly a very unpleasant part of not being part of the team. We're going to hear from |
| 0:53.7 | Alan Schuknek and her daughter Aaron McPherson. They are education experts and |
| 0:58.6 | moms and they're going to tell Jim Daly and me some things about their approach to parenting and discipline. |
| 1:05.0 | Alan, let me ask you this, as an educator, I mean, I think the joke for Gene and I is, |
| 1:10.0 | how many times have we said to say please and thank you? I mean I think we as parents may say that 10,000 times. |
| 1:16.0 | It sure feels like it sure feels like. I'm not kidding. And yet you've got to be persistent and not let emotions get into it. That's a, you know, a small example but you might be trying to train them in different ways. |
| 1:26.5 | Curtissies the appropriate way to treat people, etc. And sometimes as a young child it just doesn't happen immediately or it happens every fifth time you mention it. |
| 1:38.0 | How do you maintain that patience, Alan, where you're going to say with a good parental voice, you know a little Johnny, |
| 1:44.8 | I've told you a few times you need to say please and thank you, those are the magic words, |
| 1:48.8 | you know, whatever you're going to say. |
| 1:50.4 | But how do you keep that parental attitude that this is in the moment it's going to take probably 10,000 more times to go down this path before they get it? |
| 1:59.0 | One of the things I really recommend that parents do is not make the correction right at the moment |
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