\u201cDad, the only time you ever talk to me is to point out my mistakes,\u201d complained the son.<\/p>\n
Make a journal. Log how many times a day you say something negative to your child. Then log all the positive, affirming, and encouraging things you say daily to your child. Which list is longer?<\/p>\n
We sometimes get into the bad habit of pointing out all the things wrong with our children, but fail to affirm them when they show responsibility and a healthy attitude.<\/p>\n
Replace criticism with kind correction and teaching. Find ways to say to your child \u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cI thank God for ____________________________________.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI appreciate you when _________________________________.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI am proud of you because _____________________________.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou are special to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI love you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWill you pray for me today about ________________________?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to thank you for ________________________________.\u201d<\/p>\n
Positive affirmation makes deposits into the emotional bank of your child. Criticism makes withdrawals. Children grow and mature when they have a positive balance in their emotional bank account. But they become critical and cynical, rebellious and angry when they must carry a negative balance.<\/p>\n
Have you made any deposits lately? Is your child\u2019s emotional bank account overflowing or overdrawn?<\/p>\n
Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing <\/i>(1 Thess. 5:11).<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cDad, the only time you ever talk to me is to point out my mistakes,\u201d complained the son. Make a journal. Log how many times a day you say something negative to your child. Then log all the positive, affirming, and encouraging things you say daily to your child. Which list is longer? We sometimes … Continue reading “56 REPLACE CRITICISM WITH AFFIRMATION.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}