Consistant...Key word

Being a parent means a lot of things and one of this is consistency. Kids do the darndest things at any time and if you let them know they did wrong from day one and continued it then you keep that up. The problems lies within the parent. For instance my daughter as she normally does climbs on me and gave me a book. As I opened it she began to read to me. It felt great and not everything was right but the feeling was tremendous. I was on cloud 15 as she was all excited about this and so was I. Then the child instinct of writing on anything reared its ugly head. Pen in hand, object that clearly isn't her and should not have ink written on it was about to. So I took that pen away and tears began flowing and while she doesn't have tantrums she knows how to shed a tear and they came a flowing. It isn't a good feeling but it has to happen in order to keep them from going over board because what was cute when they were younger definetly is not the case now. So while one time you are doing your happy dance the next minute it you need that disciple hat on. You can never let them "get away" with things. It leads to bad habits.