Living your life on purpose

Posted on January 04, 2013 by Jayne Norris, One of Thousands of Relationship Coaches on Noomii.

I have three girls from the age of 14 down to 8. Lately I have been hearing I didn’t mean tooooo. About a month ago I told my 8 year old that she needs to start living her life on propose. Then 15 Min. later my 14 year old said that she didn’t mean tooooooooooo, She a teenager and gets a little more dramatic. Later that night my 13 year old said I didn’t mean TOOOOO she thinks it’s OK to yell, all three of them where told that they need to live their life’s on propose that I was no longer excepting that as a reason. That they are going to benefit from living their life as if they mean it. Well every one of them looked at me as if I had three heads.
I have been reinforcing this every time they say it to me. I tell them that there is a consequence to every action. Again I have three heads. Then my 14 year old had an A on her report card. She is the smartest of the 3 but, the laziest of them to so it was a big deal. That weekend she wanted to stay over night with her girl friend. “I told her that there are consequences for your behavior and that she could spend the night.” She didn’t look at me like I had three heads.
Later that week we got a letter in the mail from the school addressed to the parents of our 13 year old. Now she may yell but she’s always been good in school and we thought Noooooo not the 13 year curse. Well it turned out that she had made the National Junior Honor Society. That weekend she wanted to go to the mall for a couple of hours. “I told her that there are consequences for her behavior and that she could go.” Again I didn’t have three heads.
Then my 8 year old wanted to go to a party at her friend’s home and she went in and cleaned her room before she asked me if she could go. When she asked me I said “That there are” I know mom I heard why do you think I cleaned my room with out you telling me. I get it. I looked at her and said “You know what I think that you do understand.”
Sometimes I feel like I’m pushing a bus up hill then they surprise me with jumping behind the bus and helping me push. I am so thank full that they are learning that they need to live their lives on porpoise now when the consequences of not doing it are minor. That is the cool thing about being a kid, you get to make mistakes and not lose a great deal because of it.

Blessing

Jayne Norris L.C.
Speaker, Author, Licensed Trainer

www.JayneNorris.com
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Phoenix, Arizona

Be in harmony with your good.