Teaching Responsiblity/Remain Consistent

Remaining consisitent can be difficult especially when your child.teen doesn't want to cooperate. But consistency is key. If your child see's that they can get their way by acting out or annoying you until you give in, they will continue to do so. So when ever you give a consequence stick to your words. It will always be hard before it gets better.

So responsiblity ties into this because, when you hold your child accountable for a choir, direction, behavior and such, and you rescue you them from thier delema you are teaching them forgettness and you will always bail them out. So here is an example of what I have done and am still doing with my son.

He has a list of tasks and goals of what he is supposed to do, in the next colum I have " MET" " Not Met " "N/A" ( if it is a two to three times a week thing) Reason for not meeting requirments, consequence for not meeting goal or task. Also I do no remind him to look at his goals and expectation sheet, it is his responsbility, if he fails to do what ever it is on this list then he he looses things.