Parenting Techniques That Produce Persistent Kids…Or Don’t
Telling them when they’re wrong
Sometimes, you’ll find that your kid’s teacher or coach or friend was right to reprimand your kid—your kid may have messed up. If you don’t ask her to think and talk through the events, but rather just go off and accuse the other party, you raise a child who becomes the type of adult who sees everything that goes wrong in her life as everyone else’s fault. You raise someone with a victim mentality.