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Poor Parenting Practices

Have Destroyed Millions of Lives

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Parenting is the most difficult task in the world if you want to get it right. That is why many parents inevitably make mistakes. Let's look at ten common parenting mistakes first.

10 Poor Parenting Practices

1. Yelling

Yelling may make your children obey you in the beginning. But if you are all bark and no bite your kids will soon learn to ignore you. Turning up the volume will be of no use except to incur the wrath of your neighbors. Worse, your children will also be yelling back at you. Unless you intend to turn your house into a megaphone-churning factory, this is a poor parenting practice.

2. Spanking

Spanking leads to several consequences, none of them lovely. We will give you two reasons why spanking is an absolute no no. Your child will have learned from you that if you are not in control of a situation, you should beat up someone. He may end up becoming a bully. Your child may also become a slippery eel and learn how to avoid being caught. He may be angelic in front of you, but you won't know what devilry he is up to behind your back.

3. Belittling

Belittling may leave lasting emotional scars. Children who have been constantly belittled in childhood may form neuroses in adulthood.

4. Criticizing Your Child in Front of Others

Children are very vulnerable to being hurt. If you criticize them when other people are around, they may develop low self-esteem. If your child has been naughty, please take him aside to correct his behavior.

5. Complaining About Your Child to Others

Some parents have the bad habit of complaining about their kids to their friends and relatives when their children are within earshot. If your child is lazy, selfish or shy, don't tell anyone about it, especially when your kid is near you. He will end up identifying himself with laziness, selfishness or shyness.

6. Nagging

Nagging never ever works. Not even if you tell your daughter to clean her #$&^!* room for the 2,768,765,876,1657th time!

7. Ignoring

You can plant an acorn in your garden and ignore it for the next 30 years. It will grow into a luxuriant oak tree. Sadly, you can't do that with your kids. You have to be constantly keeping an eye on them. Why? To correct them immediately when they make mistakes and to praise them when they do something good. How else are kids going to learn how to grow up? Height is not a reliable indicator of maturity.

8. Treating Your Kids Disrespectfully

Some parents may be incredulous. Do I have to show respect to a snot-nosed tantrum-throwing toddler? Certainly. A child whose feelings are respected will learn how to be considerate and respect the feelings of others. A rule of thumb you can use: treat your children the way you want others to treat them. Wouldn't you be irate if someone snubbed your child or insulted her feelings? It's good parenting practice to say "please", "thank you" and "excuse me" to your kids.

9. Conditional Love

Being cold to your kids unless they show you that they deserve your love by being good or smart or hardworking is poor parenting practice. Such children can end up having emotional problems. This poor parenting practice is common among parents who want to create child prodigies. Beethoven's father was guilty of this.

10. Being Santa Claus

Showering your kids with lots of expensive toys, gadgets and clothes creates brats. We will show you brat-busting parenting practices in our other articles.

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