Many parents fail not because they are inadequate or because they lack love for their children or because they want something less than the best for their children, but because they are inconsistent. They give warnings but do not follow through. They say things they do not mean. They lack patience. They punish in anger.
Unsuccessful parents attend to the negative rather than the positive.
They criticize too much. Parents who have discipline problems do not plan. They do not realize that they can be part of the problem. Parents are part of the problem because of their patterns of reaction. Parents usually react in one of two ways.