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Article #361: The Most Important Parenting Question of All

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The most important question to regret.
continually ask yourself as you parent It is this question that will continually
your child is: challenge you to look at the situation
"Will what I am about to do bring me critically to see what your alternatives
closer to my child or move us further are.
apart?" It is this question that will allow you
It is this question that, from day one as a parent to grow and learn new ways of
and right through the teen years, will relating to your child as they grow and
allow you to build the closest bond with change.
your child. It is this question that will encourage
It is this question that will keep you your children to be respectful as they
grounded to act from love not from some are guided by the behaviours that you
other emotion, such as anger. model.
It is this question that will keep you as This question which comes from William
a parent on track and keep your Glasser's 'Choice Theory' is a wonderful
relationship with your child based on reminder for you to look at how you are
respect. being with your child. After all isn't
It is this question that will ensure that what you want a close, loving and
you are using discipline with your respectful relationship with your child?
children and not punishment. The best way to achieve such a
It is this question that will guarantee relationship is to model these values
that you are thinking through your yourself, making this question a very
actions and not just reacting - doing or powerful parenting tool.
saying something that later you may






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