You can escape many predicaments by setting up a few guidelines in advance. You will learn several strategies to help you be more proactive. Successful parents and their children are partners in discipline. Successful parents know that discipline is a teaching process, not just punishment. Successful parents understand that their behavior and emotions affect their children's behavior and emotions.
Successful parents teach their children to think for themselves.
They teach children self-control. Successful parents build self-esteem. Successful parents learn from their children. They develop reaction patterns that reduce misbehavior. They follow through.