Questions are such FUN!Weekly Tip from the Love and Logic® Experts
There is everlasting JOY and downright FUN in handling kids' mistakes with questions rather than recrimination. We never know whether those little souls are really listening to us while we're talking. But when we ask questions in a non-witness-stand and curious manner, we lead them to think. Let's look at a recent enjoyable example:
Two brothers, ages 8 and 6, were playing with bows and arrows and scooters here at our house the other day. Before leaving for home, their dad asked, "Did you boys put the arrows and bows and scooters away?" And they answered, "Yes." However, when I looked in the barn after they left, they had thrown everything just out of sight, inside the door. What a mess! There was the target, still with arrows sticking out; there were the bows, still strung; there were the arrows, scattered all across the floor and the scooters were buried beneath the arrows and bows.
When something like this happens, so many parents could lecture, show frustration, punish, thereby encouraging resentment in the kids, and raising their own blood pressure in the process.
Instead, I sent the picture below via email, to their Love and Logic dad. To find out what he did next, click HERE!
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