Unconditional Parenting
Raising children
Attribute to children the best possible motives
from Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason by Alfie Kohn
How to Apply This
- Stop attributing malicious intentions to your child.
Forget the labels mean, rude, immoral, and so on. For example, if your child kicked someone, they most likely did it not maliciously but because that person had insulted them or the child was experiencing another emotion (jealousy, anger, negligence, etc.) and didn't know how to react otherwise. - Change your perspective on your child's misbehavior.
Analyze your children's misbehavior by noting their inexperience, curiosity, and inability to understand the consequences of their actions.
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