Purposeful Ramblings Through My Mind

I was thinking about this last night, and realized that there was another group who would take more convincing: the kids who have received mixed messages in the past. If one parent is permissive and the other is strict; if this is a switch from a previous parenting method that wasn't working; if you are a caregiver for a child whose home expectations are too lax for you; then you may have to be stricter than you would otherwise have had to be. In behavioral terms, you have to extinguish the behavior you don't want before you can get the behavior you do want.