These are you child's formative years. Get your parenting right in these important stages and you can rely on a lifelong supplier for all your needs!
You may have to begin relinquishing a little bit of your hold now that your child can walk and talk. In this stage, you will also have to begin battling those interfering forces from outside: your child's friends, teachers and social workers may all vie with your over control of your child's development. You can adopt different approaches at this stage.
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Meddlesome Approach
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Indifferent Approach
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Stay Focussed
Whichever approach you choose, there are some basic you need to keep in mind:
- Preserve the gulf between your home reality and outer image
- Remind your child to focus on you and your needs, against outside distractions
- Communicating your child's monumental responsibilities towards you, frequently and between the lines (this embeds it in their unconscious)
- Nip independence and individuality in the bud
- There are tried and tested tools at your disposal: religion, ideology, class and other established paradigms are very useful for proving that you are right und bolstering your authority
Discipline
There are myriad subtle yet soul-crushing methods for disciplining your child. Based on psychological principles, these methods are effective, lasting and will alert neither the school nor child protective services.
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Social Contact
You may not be able to completely prevent your child having contact outside your immediate family. School attendance, neighbours, friends and other interferences will take their toll. However, you are not helpless in the face of this challenge to your supremacy!
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Divide and Conquer
Bank on sibling rivalry. You can reign supreme when your children are in competition against each other, vying for your attention, love, gifts and even food.
The scapegoat/golden child model is a proven, time-honoured method that can be flexibily scaled and adapted according to your current needs.
The scapegoat/golden child model is a proven, time-honoured method that can be flexibily scaled and adapted according to your current needs.
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