# VI Commandment Re Your Kids

# VI Commandment Re Your Kids March 7, 2013

VI: Never make the mistake I made by expecting that somehow a child will learn to be polite by yelling at them!

Snapping, “Say thank you!” or “Say please!” teaches nothing. Saying please and thank you to your child and showing them consistent respect is what they will imitate.

(to be continued in this space tomorrow…)

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Frank Schaeffer is a writer and author of Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back .


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