Consider the Serious Implications Bound Up in These Statements

Twenty One-Liners From Our Site

Clarification of and the Implications for Each One-Liner Will Be Detailed in the
Better Homes & Schools Monthly SnapShot

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A Word of Caution!

When evaluating the One-Liners below, there are some things you need to keep in mind. The One-Liners on their own do not tell the whole story, and a casual reader may make erroneous assumptions. I strongly advise that you read the discussion statements for each One-Liner in SnapShot. You may find some of the conclusions challenging if they differ from your current thinking. They may be challenging because they conflict with current trends promoted by some psychiatrists, psychologists, academics, and teachers. Some One-Liners may raise some eyebrows.

001
Parents, teachers and children should understand boundaries and consequences.

002
Children need to be encouraged.

003
Managing your behaviour stimulates a reciprocal response.

004
Provide children with positive recognition, and they will be more likely to make better choices.

005
Buying your child's affection is teaching them to expect rewards for giving their affections.

006
If what you are doing is not working, change what you are doing.

007
If you treat your child as if they were the most important person in the world, they will expect it from everybody.

008
Parents should have a 'presence' of authority, confidence, friendliness, assertiveness, empathy, strength, firmness and affection.

009
When children respect their parents, they learn respect for themselves.

010
If you are walking on eggshells with your child, it shows they are at the top of the pecking order.

011
Many toys can inhibit a child's creativity and resourcefulness.

012
A child is a smaller cog in the family machinery.

013
Punish in anger, and it's a lose-lose situation. 

014
It is better if rewards are of educational value.

015
Ignoring inappropriate behaviour is like training a dog to bite you.

016
What you allow, you teach.

017
Think before you speak or react; give yourself time to respond from logic and reason, not emotion.

018
Managing behaviour should be time, cost and emotionally effective.

019
The marriage should be the primary focus, not the child.

020
Only give consequences when you are sure of what happened.

By
Richard Warden