Parenting Children to Respond with a Happy Heart

Disciplining Children so They Have a Good Attitude When Obeying

Jul 22, 2009 Jennifer Wagaman

When a child is respectful, he will obey his parents with a happy-heart.

When children respect their parents, they will listen and obey with a happy heart, leading to fewer discipline problems and less complaining throughout each day. A parent's responsibility to a child is to provide for the physical and emotional needs as necessary for the child to grow up to become a responsible adult. This is a huge responsibility and one that must not be taken lightly.

Teaching children how to have a happy heart is a parenting process that can take time, yet is as important as caring for children's physical needs. It is a parent's job to teach children to be responsible caring people from the way they interact with others to the way they respond to authority.

Respect Leads to Obedience With a Happy Heart

When a child is respectful of his parents, he will not grumble when asked to do something. It is impossible, however, to teach a child to be respectful if his parents are not respectful of both the child and others in authority positions. Through witnessing respect, a child will learn to respect others.

Therefore it is just as important for parents to respect their child as it is for them to respect other authority figures. Parents need to say "thank you" and "please" when asking for things, first and foremost. When asking for the child to do something, parents need to be careful to praise the child for obedience, even if it is after some sort of discipline. Modeling this kind of respect will become an invaluable daily life lesson for children.

First-Time Obedience is the Result of Respectful Children

How can parents tell if their child is respectful? Watching how quickly a child obeys is one way to tell. If the child does not listen to the rules and boundaries that a parent sets for him, then that child is not being respectful. Teaching a child to listen and obey the first time can prevent tantrums and dangerous situations and will instill respect at the same time. Learn more about teaching children to have first-time obedience.

It is important that if parents wish to have their child listen and be respectful, they should model each behavior and always follow through with discipline. This requires the parent to think carefully before threatening a consequence for misbehavior, because only with follow-through will the child learn that when the parent says do this, action is expected immediately and with a happy heart.

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Respectful Parenting Leads to Obedience