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Parenting Young Children is a marathon. It's not a sprint and if you're trying to teach your children to be patient or to use kind words

You're probably going to have to repeat yourself day after day after day, but don't give up when they're young

They really need time to learn those lessons and internalize them. I'm John Fuller along with Danny Werta. He's the vice president of parenting and youth here at Focus on the Family and

Jim Daly and I talked with Ginger Hubbard. She told us how to correct our kids and teach them in a way that really sticks.

You had a situation with your son Wesley.

I don't know how old he was, you can in those blanks but he was aggravating his sister

and doing it in a very unique ways never the same way it sounded like because he would hear you

and then he would do it differently.

Describe that and then how you applied the aggravating chapter here

to help your little son do a better job not aggravating.

Right, yes.

When they were little little Wesley went through this

phase where he was just constantly aggravating his younger sister Alex and

his favorite thing to do is what he affectionately referred to as the lion game.

And with the lion game, this involves Wesley getting down on all fours, just growling

and snarling and drooling as he would charge after her through the house.

Scaring her to death, I'm sure.

I don't know why she wouldn't like that, but she didn't.

And he would also come up with all of these other games that were very irritating at her expense.

And I just sounded like a broken record all day long.

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