Coward Parents Create Growing Monsters

“I don’t want to discipline my kids.” “ Life is too short to spend it nagging kids.” “ We need to have fun. I want my kids to like me and know I’m their best friend. That won’t happen if I make them do chores.” “I don’t want my kids to be unhappy having to work doing chores because they’re just supposed to be kids.” “Kids will take care of themselves. They don’t need me harping at them. They’ll just take it out on me.”

Parents who utter poor excuses for not disciplining their children are cowards. Their cowardice causes their children to not be liked, keeps others from wanting to be around their kids, short-changes the potential of self-discipline children need for their own maturation and success in society, and worst of all, causes people to react negatively to their children who need encouragement for valued behaviors instead of discouragement for disruptive behavior. Kids with this background will do many destructive activities for attention getting and rebelling against those who do not help them contain themselves. Underneath it all, they want to be cared for and GUIDED, develop a conscience, and feel good for the right reasons.

Too often people confuse freedom of spirit and need for self-discipline. A child can be free-spirited without causing harm to self, others or relationships. There is a time and a place. Kids yelling and walking on top of the dining room table is not freedom of expression. It is damaging behavior and can be unsafe.

Children without a conscience are growing in numbers, so says the research. Seems like they should look at some stats on the number of growing parental cowardice.