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Working together - Team Work as a Parenting Skill
Kids learn from example; and if you can involve your children in the household activities, you gain on several counts: they share your burden of work; they get your time and attention; and they learn to work as a team. The best parenting advice is to work together in raising your children and establishing child discipline. Children are children; and whether they are your own or your spouse's kids from a previous relationship, it is the duty of the two people who make up their parents to work together to form their children's discipline plan.
Children are experts in manipulating situations to their advantage. They know that if they can't get something from one parent, they can always turn to the other. This not only creates unnecessary misunderstanding between the parents but also teaches the children to be opportunists. They get wrong ideas and learn to use unfair means to get their way. This can be avoided through team work.
The solution is simple. Parents need to work as a team; they should discuss matters openly and come to an agreement. Once they agree upon an action plan, they must stick to it and under all circumstances support each other, at least in the presence of the children.
You can divide the activities between you; that is the most practical and effective team work. After all, you can't agree on everything, but if you divide the areas of activity, each has the freedom to carry it out to the best of their ability. For example, one parent can handle outdoor activities while the other handles indoor activities..
Another option to head off child behavior problems is that each situation requires the approval of both parents in order for an answer to be given. This often works but can be a bit troublesome when one parent is not available.
Once you have decided about the methods to be used, you need to agree on the rules and steps to follow. Once you've decided, then go to your children and explain the situation.
Your children must have the perception that you work together as a team. It will help the older children to understand the situation and it will deter them from future parent playing. It works for smaller children just as well too, because establishing this routine will prevent parent playing from occurring.
More than just parent playing is at stake when parents need to work together. Parenting decisions aren't just limited to going to the park or watching TV. They also include what type and kind of education? Which religion or faith a child should be brought up in? What type of child disciplinary measures should be taken? All of these questions and more need to be addressed. So that all parents are on the same page on what they want or think for their children's behavior and child discipline needs.
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Dr. Noel Swanson has years of experience in helping parents with child behavior problems. To read more of his expert parenting advice visit his website and check out his hugely popular GOOD CHILD Guide manual, jammed full of practical parenting advice.
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