Ok, I might be worrying a little early (my kids are 3 and 5 yrs old) but I wonder how to parent kids when they get older
Because I know eventually the next step will be my older (and maybe younger too) kid will ask to sleep over at another kid’s house & after that who knows and the parenting tactics might fail with me because all of a sudden your kids are grown up (or think they are) and you can’t just hug them when they get a booboo or try to offer them your parental advice because they might think they’re old enough to be above it.
Anyways how do you think your parenting will change when your kids get older, or now that they actually *are* older? I am afraid that someday my kids will be too old to put them in timeout as a punishment for misbehaving and too old for me to just hug them and tell them an “ouchy” will go away.
So what do you do when your kids get older as far as parenting? I know we can’t stop time, but how does your parenting change as far as rules and such?
Harvey
Tags: Booboo, Ouchy, Parental Advice
I got 8 kids ranging from27 to 14 I miss them sleeping with me when they were very young. I made the 1st 2 my friends but i would not advise that u have to be there mum b4 a friend . Just be a dammed good listerner and be prparred for anythink .I prefer friends of our kids to stay at our place , we always make the there friends feel comfortable.If you have a girl the 1st real boyfriend she gets hurts a bit as you became a no-one and there b/f becomes god .Lap there love and there cuddles and there tears up now as they grow up so fast.And get them to help aound the house even at a early age.And be there for them 24/7 and as they are older NEVER give up on them .
just take it as it comes, the teenage years of parenting is probably some of the most hardest times, but also the best times, when they get to about 17+ you will start to bond a different realtionship more of a friend realtionship then a mother child one. you can talk to ur child about YOUR problems in stead of the other way around. but all u can do in changing ur parenting is to take everything as it comes take it day by day
as a teenager i might be able to help ,i started really mis- behaving and my mom got real mad but then became nice again. So you get really frustrated and then cool down that’s the best way to do it because then your kids will listen to you.