By Sherri Kruger
It seems a bit counter-intuitive punishing your kids for being good but I suspect we all do it more than we realize.
Punishment is easy to see when you’re putting your kids in time out, raising your voice to them or using some other form of discipline. It’s a lot more challenging to see when you’re punishing your kids for being good.
When you have more than one child this is a particularly easy trap to fall into but it’s not so easy to see how it happens. Take a minute and see if you’re punishing your kids for being good, smart, successful etc.
Now, let’s look at a simple example:
Child A can:
get dressed help himself to cereal and pack his bag for school
Child B can’t do these things.
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