1. Your primary parenting style determines how you interact with your children and is responsible for many of the behavior issues that you may be seeing in your children. You can identify what your parenting style is and how it effects your children by taking a parenting styles quiz.
2. Each child is different so you'll need to adjust your parenting approach to be the best "fit" for the each child in your family. In parenting one approach rarely works for all children.
3. Children always seek attention. …show more content…
7. Parenting effectiveness is based on being consistent. Consistently enforce consequences when children misbehave and be sure to notice and award recognition for specially good behavior.
8. The definition of crazy parenting is to continue to do the same exact things that are not working except yelling louder. If your children haven't responded to your particular parenting approach it is time to learn methods that actually work.
When you keep these core concepts in mind you empower your child to take responsibility and "own" their behavior and the outcome of their behavior, good or bad. I call this "responsibility based parenting". The most difficult phase is simply getting started. As a parent the chances are good that you'll need to make a few changes to your parenting style.
As a parent you can "tune up" your parenting techniques by introducing some of the principles we've just discussed. Once you know what works you'll find effective parenting becomes a habit and you'll soon see positive changes in your child's behavior and