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Originally Posted by bchgirl Soft approach nothing....lock her in the dang closet  Not really, but if she were mine, her privileges would be history. You earn privileges, they are not rights. If the behavior warrants that a child can not be trusted...they are the cause of lost privileges not YOU. If I had to call school every day, so be it. If I have to call to determine where she was because I don't trust her, so be that too.
Good luck and as the mother of a 13 year old...I ain't looking forward to her getting any older  |
THAT's the "soft" appraoch
The hard approach would be throwing things, screaming, yelling, storming out of the house, etc. My parents were not the "soft" approach type.