Five Mistakes Connected Parents Make

Behavior and Responsibility

3. Believing Your Child's Behavior Is Your Responsibility

Does this sound like your fundamental job description? Taking responsibility for your child’s behavior, means you have to fix it. It is your child’s job to fix his problems. It is your job to help him to do so with a problem solving approach. When you take the job on, your emotions get hooked in, you try to control, and cannot be helpful. Her behavior becomes a reflection of your parenting.