My parents adored us, but they also lacked the ability to discipline us... I knew my future parenting style would incorporate more authoritarian discipline, which has proven to be the best thing for my 5-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter.
An authoritative parenting style was the right choice for my family. When my husband and I decided to have children, we discussed how we'd raise them. I wanted to parent them from a place of logic while prioritizing discipline in response to bad behaviors.
That kind of authoritarian parenting means having age-appropriate conversations about how actions have consequences in addition to enforcing those consequences, like temporarily revoking some of my kids' childhood privileges.
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