This will be brief...
I am overdone.
Tired.
Cranky.
Old.
3 days work
2 days Revolve
2 days of basketball tourney
6 concerts @ Rock & Worship Roadshow...
and then Pathfinders tonight + a staff meeting to ice the cake.
{OVERDONE}
I would love to post all the wonderful pictures from this busy weekend...
that will have to come tomorrow.
I have to decompress.
and one more thing while I am being cranky pants...
A question if you will. (or two or three)
"What is your stance on holding kids today accountable for their actions?"
"Is is someone else's fault?" "As a parent do you make things better for them... smooth the rough spots... ease the consequences?"
I am curious your answers. I feel like today we (the world in general) try to remove consequences from kids if we can... we push the blame on someone else. We don't hold people accountable for their actions. When we grow up... our parents can't bail us out... the choices we make have consequences... and sometimes they are not fun. I heard of an adult today suffering through some pretty serious stuff because of choices and consequences, and no one can bail them out. Just rambling here, but would love your input. Since I have 5 kids... work with kids... coach kids... Work with parents...I am interested in this topic.
Weigh in.
2 comments:
I feel that it's extremely important to teach our kids to be accountable. I have two kids who are very accountable for themselves and one that can not seem to accept responsibility at all. In this child's world, it's always someone else's fault that the action or emotion happened. Thankfully kids are a work in progress and there is still time.
I think that letting our kids experience the consequences while offering love and support throughout the process is the best way to deal with it. I also think we can model being accountable as parents.
Parenting is such a huge responsibility and each child is so unique. The enormity of it is overwhelming for me sometimes.
We hold our kids responsible for their actions. That is where Russell and I battle it out the most because he thinks it was "not that bad" or whatever. We tell them they are in control of them and according to their actions, consequences come. Russell is 7 and Chloe is 6 they are held accountable. A pet peeve of mine is adults who are not accountable for their actions.
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