Always remember, everyone is hungry for praise and starving for honest appreciation! ~ David Brandt Berg ~ [Source]

It’s often so much easier to tell the kids, “Why didn’t you put your dirty clothes in the laundry basket?” They will do it but grudgingly and will not put the dirty clothes to be washed in the basket the next time either. Every time the child does something wrong, he/she is often reprimanded and keeps repeating the same mistake.

It can be changed with a word of praise for something else the child did. Influencing your children will take practice if you haven’t done it before. All you need is a little improvement for your influence and over time, you will be a natural in ensuring your children are following your ways; the right paths that you hope they will follow in.

Praising is a sincere action, even with your partners. Children will follow their parents no matter what, they follow what they see. It’s duplicated over generations and if you do sit back and observe, you will realise that a pattern has been formed. There are vices that you always wanted to eradicate but failed to.

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Start with a small change and continue with praises for each improvement your kids have shown. Human beings need motivation and sometimes, the motivation doesn’t need to be materialistic either. Kids just want your attention in order to feel loved.

Putting down your partner in front of you kids make them lose respect for that parent. They won’t revere their mothers or fathers since they know the weakness of the parents. They will just go “It doesn’t matter anyway since mum/dad can’t even resolve some issue the other time.”

Even if your children are being surrounded by all the vices you don’t want them to pick up, as long as you have done your part in showing them that you are responsible to the family, they will follow you. Parents just want their children to grow up to be useful and perhaps great personalities. Such characters starts from young.

What are the things you have done to ensure that you have kids who listen to you more than to their peers?

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