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  • Beliefs (2-10-2009)

     

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    Do your kids understand the underlying reasons behind your household rules?

    It is important for parents to communicate the beliefs behind their rules. Rules can be challenged and may be changed from time to time, but beliefs are those things that cannot be shaken.

    For instance, if your rule is that curfew will be at a certain time, explain it in terms that the rule is in place because your belief is that nothing good can happen outside the home after that hour.  That is why the teen needs to be home.

    Then, reinforce your rules with apporpriate consequences. When kids know what you believe, and that your rules and consequences are not arbitrary, they will be more likely to remember them and pass them on to their own children.


    Parenting Todays Teens Radio by Mark Gregston, presented by Heartlight Ministries Foundation

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