By Dr. Corey Allan
Post written by mom and parenting columnist Susan Heid of The Confident Mom.
When you’re asking your children to do things for you, do you ever feel like you’re talking to a wall?
One of the most challenging tasks that moms often face is teaching their children to listen and follow directions. It becomes frustrating for the whole family when you repeatedly give the same directions multiple times. As moms’ we can easily become the nagging machine, which is not only frustrating but exhausting.
The trouble is, we tend to think it is all our children’s doing – “making” us repeat ourselves multiple times in order to get them to comply. Here is the catch, if we have fallen into that pattern; we have conditioned our children to expect that mom will repeat herself... More...
