Duct Tape Parenting: A Less Is More Approach to Raising Respectful, Responsible, and Resilient Kids

It’s clear that these dreams, desires, and visions for parenting are heavily weighted in creating and maintaining a loving, respectful, and fulfilling relationship with our kids.

Encouragement is meant to inspire

Mentoring allows us to look for ways to inspire, guide, teach, train, and support our kids as they grow and learn.

Take time to train the kids to participate in running the house.

What if you don’t really want to get rid of all the things that drive you crazy, but rather aim to tweak your child’s “negative behaviors” into a strength-filled, useful skill set?

“Encouragement is more important than any other aspect of child-raising. It is so important that the lack of it can be considered the basic cause for misbehavior. A misbehaving child is a discouraged child.”

As a child, knowing that someone is noticing the fact that you are getting better at difficult tasks inspires you to keep going. For many parents, to encourage just requires leaving the and I’m so proud of you off the end of the statement.

Create routines

1. Mistakes are opportunities to learn.