Tips So You Can Avoid Having to Nag Your Children
For you intentional parents out there looking to further spur your child’s empowerment even while they’re not at our girls-camp or boys-camp, here’s a good piece from sociologist Christine Carter regarding setting yourself up as a parent to have to nag less! It’s a podcast, so for you visual/reading types, the takeaway is:
(1) Setting up habits and routines is a good way to eliminate the need to nag, since children can just fall into the pattern of what’s expected of them at certain times
(2) If you do need to spur your child(ren) with reminders, you should envoke a three-part system:
- empathize
- rationalization
- and using non-controlling language (i.e. not being a dictator).
For your auditory/visual types, check out the podcast at this link.
Please share your good parenting ideas in the comments!