You’re afraid of your children.
Example: If a child wants to drink milk from a different cup, and not their usual one, parents immediately start looking for another cup instead of ignoring the request. They fear that their child wil cry or refuse to eat. Your child shouldn’t command you. You have to let them cry if they want to and go someplace else if you don’t want to hear it, but never raise your children indulging every single one of their wishes along the way. You must think about what message you’re sending them when you give them all they want just because they are crying. Are you going to do something about it?
Making excuses (“That’s how children are”)
One of the 5 errors is this one. If you justify their misbehavior and outbursts in public by using this phrase, you’re motivating your children to continue misbehaving and be irresponsible. Children are actually capable of doing much more than their parents can expect. This goes for respect, manners, everyday domestic work, generosity and self-control.
You don’t let others scold them.
Back in the day, teachers and professors could scold our children when they behaved improperly. They were our eyes and ears when the children were out of our sight. Nowadays this is almost impossible because if a teacher or an employee gives a piece of their mind to a child, parents tend to get mad. They don’t even try to find out what happened to cause this kind of reaction from a superior. If you act like this, you’re basically telling your children to misbehave and that neither you, the teacher, or the employee would do anything to stop them.
Children come in the first place.
Parents tend to look after their children too much. It’s good for evolution, but we should also create a timetable adaptable to children’s needs, such as food, clothes, nursing and others. Parents nowadays are taking it to another level, subjecting their own obligations and mental health to children, to satisfy all their needs and requests. You can’t give them everything they want when they want. You can’t also burst out running for evrything they ask for. This will take your peace and your health away, it will stress you out, but above all, it will show your children they are the ones that are in control. Nothing will happen to your child just because you’ve taken some time for yourself (unless there’s an emergency of some kind), and neither will anything happen if you say “No”
They use to take advantage of the shortcuts.
Parents today often resort to a series of shortcuts to avoid their children getting bored and thus start misbehaving. They only burden them with electronic devices whenever they’re waiting for a doctor’s appointment, boarding a plane, waiting for a bus, or just cooking and cleaning their homes. You have to teach your children how to be patient when they should learn how to amuse themselves on their own. They should also learn that food won’t be ready and served whenever they want it to be. Above all, you should teach your children they need to help in the kitchen, but not with actual cooking, but with doing the dishes.