You can never give a child too much love. Love is the most important element in human relationships. Assure him and reassure him and re-reassure him. Tell him even when you are taking away the keys of the car and would like to kick him. Tell your adolescent he is brilliant, handsome, charming, witty, and lovable. Not the deep-hidden-river I-bore-you-so-I-will-have-to-like-you type of love, but the visible, hug-and-kiss, lavish-compliment, interested-audience kind. Piggle-Wiggle book by Betty MacDonald Children's Books > Classic Children's Books ISBN: 0671708635 ISBN13: 9780671708634 Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Restoring the Character Ethic by Betty MacDonald See Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover 4.39 - 4.59 Paperback 3.59 - 4.69 School & Library Binding - Library Binding 17. …Instead of giving your child too much freedom, too much money, and all the responsibility for his actions, try giving him limited freedom and money, a strict code of behavior, and oceans and gallons and mountains of love. Do not allow him to keep the household in a continual uproar.

Demand that the adolescent go along with the family routine. Rebelling against nothing is very frustrating. Lay down strict rules of behavior and enforce them. He thought that the most intelligent approach to the problem was to understand that the adolescent, just by the nature of the beast, is going to chafe and rebel and he needs something specific to chafe and rebel against. He said that there was entirely too much “understanding,” actually excusing of the adolescent, his lack of manners, selfishness, tantrums, and so on. Piggle-wiggle See all formats and editions Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 19.73 20 Used from 10.68 6 New from 18.62 1 Collectible from 91. He said that adolescence was a difficult period but entirely normal and his sympathies were with the parents, not the adolescents. 1 1985 by Betty MacDonald (Author) 1,380 ratings Book 1 of 7: Mrs. Wilburforce was wonderful! He sounded as if he had had adolescent children.

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