struggling with discipline
Seld Discipline and I are not the best of friends. Heck, we’re barely acquantainces. I’m much more familiar with discipline imposed from outside forces, and for the record, I’m not fond of it either.
You know what I am most disliking about it right now? It’s really really hard to pass it on to your children when you don’t possess it yourself.
We are not a traditional family. We are self employed homeschoolers. That means our daily lives look pretty crazy to the rest of the world. It also means I have a lot of self imposed guilt about things not being perfect. (If you choose not to make friends with self discipiline - I can pretty much guarantee guilt will come a knockin) Mostly because I know people are looking at our family and thinking that we are horrible parents.
Today, I had to tell the teens that they could not attend choir practice and/or youth group. Blech. I hate that. They are such great kids. I hate telling them no. I hate denying them anything. But when given a list of tasks to complete, they wait until the last minute and then half way do them. DH and I have come to conclusion that they will be better served by learning that there will be consequences for those actions.
Crap. Consequences. Not a fan of them either. For me or my kids.
