How To Gain Confidence and Set the Right Limits for Your Children
Without feeling or acting like a tyrant parent
Children need limits as much as they need air. Not just limits to follow but also limits to test.
Are you unsure of what limits to set and when?
If you grew up in an authoritarian family, you might follow the same strict and cold patterns with absurd limits. Or you might try the opposite and never bother with limits.
If you grew up in a permissive family, you might follow the same loose and warm patterns with little to no limits, wanting your kids to enjoy childhood all the way. Or you might try the opposite and be too rigid about limits.
The two are extremes and your children will suffer regardless of which one you choose.
In between these two, how can you tell how much is enough and where to draw the line?
First things first…
What Are Limits?
Limits are rules we don’t bend 99% of the time.
Things we consider essential for the safety and well-being of our children and ourselves.
When we set limits, we take into account the needs of our children, but also of the people they share a space with.
