BEING A GOOD PARENT

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Being a parent takes the patience of Job, the wisdom of Solomon and enough common sense to help us make sense more often than nonsense.

            I am now 82 and all the years of parenting through grand parenting experience plus years of counseling have taught a bit.

            Children must be taught.  They don’t pick up good habits or good manners by osmosis and certainly not from their peers.   Ask some adults today who have to attend seminars to learn what they weren’t taught as children.

            So…!. 

1.   At an early age teach your children to cover their mouths when coughing.

2. Tantrums should not be allowed.  Easier said than done, I know, but if you don’t nip such behavior in the bud it will only become a bouquet of stinkweeds.
3. Explain that you are willing to listen to words, but screams only bring banishment from polite society until they are over.  Think your little ones are too young to handle such talk?  It’s amazing how soon younguns begin to understand.  Be sure you don’t match their actions with your own tantrums

4. Table manners are just as important at home as they are at a restaurant.  In fact, don’t expect them anywhere if you haven’t enforced them at home.  Don’t be afraid to send your child away from the table.  A few missed meals won’t be disastrous to his/her health and will usually get your point across.

5. One of the fascinating gadgets that kids can’t wait to use is the telephone.  However, it’s not a toy and how to use it should be learned before handling is allowed.  Does “Good Morning, this is the Jones residence” , “Julie speaking” sound artificial to you?  But it’s so much better than “Hello (often spoken too loudly” or “Yeah.”  It also reflects on their upbringing…YOU.

6. Loud and unruly behavior in stores, movies, etc.are verboten!  Ever heard a parent say (when the child can hear) “I never discipline her/him in public.”  This is like “Open Sesame” to any kid.  You don’t have to spank or create a scene – taking the misbehaving  child quickly out of the movies…or no more shopping for the day…sends a very strong message.  A few times of sticking to your guns and not giving in will work wonders.

7. Please.  Thank you.  Ah, sweet music to everyone’s ears.  Once again when taught young it’s easier.  You have to be consistently persistent or it’s in one ear and out the other. 

Of course, these aren’t the only problem areas children have. It isn’t easy learning how to grow up to be responsible adults.  And yes, the best training tool is “Monkey see, monkey do.”

SOME QUOTES FROM Rev. Wyrick’s 9^TH BOOK “THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN”

Preface

‘This book is more than just a march down memory lane.  It is certainly not a search-and-destroy mission as are some historical efforts.  It is really a questing for an understanding of the man able to write, “He has the right to criticize who has the heart to

help.”    “Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”  “It is the duty of all nations as well as of men to owe their dependence upon the over ruling power of God.”¹   “With malice toward none; with charity toward all…”

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