| What kind of parent are you? Strict? Let them be? I | | | | consistent. Everybody in the family, from both parents, |
| have news for you. If you believe in 'tough love ' | | | | and siblings know what the bottom line is and are |
| parenting, and apply it, then your defiant children or | | | | prepared to stick to it. |
| problem kids have a much better chance of growing | | | | What skills will be my kids be able to acquire? |
| to be well-adjusted adults. Isn't that every parent's | | | | Experiments show that kids will be able develop such |
| dream? | | | | key social skills as empathy, self-control. More |
| How do we know that 'tough love' is right? The | | | | importantly your kids will be able to control their |
| Millennium Cohort Study, which analysed over 9,000 | | | | emotions and so they are less.likely to have temper |
| households in the UK found that with the right mix of | | | | tantrums. |
| 'tough love' (warmth, affection and discipline), that these | | | | Who can help me to apply 'tough love'? All you need is |
| kids were twice as likely to form better a better | | | | to follow a good child behavior program. Wouldn't you |
| character by the age of five, than those kids whose | | | | like to be able to relax knowing that your kids are not |
| parents were in the unmotivated or 'couldn't care less' | | | | going to fly off the wall or beat up their siblings? It |
| category. | | | | would be great to think that moodiness and sulking and |
| How can I apply this to my kids? You have to be able | | | | verbal abuse typical of defiant children are all going to |
| to set the limits and apply them fairly and also be | | | | be a thing of the past. |