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ability in parenting, the last thing we’ll do is encourage any dad or mom—including John and Karen Miller—to look outside of ourselves and the way we parent to find reasons why our children think, feel, or act the way they do. We know that this is a difficult notion for many parents to accept, so we’re going to say it early to set the tone: If you have problems with your teen, you likely had problems with your toddler. A parent writes this: Our eighth-grade son is driving us crazy! Each week he’s supposed to empty all of the trash cans in the house, consolidate the garbage into bags—not cans—and place it by the curb for pickup. But he routinely places one of our large cans on the street instead, knowing it’s the wrong way to do it! When he doesn’t set his alarm at night and oversleeps, he blames his sister for not getting him up. If we tell him to stop playing games on the computer and do his homework, he ignores us and says that we’re “mean.” When he doesn’t practice his piano lesson, he takes absolutely no accountability for his lack of preparedness for the next time he’s with his teacher. What do we do? Help! This is an awfully frustrating situation—and we truly feel for these parents— but problems like these don’t appear overnight. We don't mean for this to sound harsh, but we believe problems like these are a direct result of the parents’ practices through the child’s lifetime. So the wrong questions to ask are “Why is my child so difficult?” and “When will he change?” while the right questions would be: “What have I done to create my current problems?” and “How can I start parenting differently?” Questions like these (we call them QBQs) not only represent accountable thinking, they lead to learning—and where there is learning there is change. For many parents, one key change needed is the willingness to adopt this principle: My child is a product of my parenting. With this premise in place, regardless of the age of the child, any parent can become the outstanding mom or dad they wish to be by practicing personal accountability.
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ability in parenting, the last thing we’ll do is encourage any dad or mom—including John and Karen Miller—to look outside of ourselves and the way we parent to find reasons why our children think, feel, or act the way they do. We know that this is a difficult notion for many parents to accept, so we’re going to say it early to set the tone: If you have problems with your teen, you likely had problems with your toddler. A parent writes this: Our eighth-grade son is driving us crazy! Each week he’s supposed to empty all of the trash cans in the house, consolidate the garbage into bags—not cans—and place it by the curb for pickup. But he routinely places one of our large cans on the street instead, knowing it’s the wrong way to do it! When he doesn’t set his alarm at night and oversleeps, he blames his sister for not getting him up. If we tell him to stop playing games on the computer and do his homework, he ignores us and says that we’re “mean.” When he doesn’t practice his piano lesson, he takes absolutely no accountability for his lack of preparedness for the next time he’s with his teacher. What do we do? Help! This is an awfully frustrating situation—and we truly feel for these parents— but problems like these don’t appear overnight. We don't mean for this to sound harsh, but we believe problems like these are a direct result of the parents’ practices through the child’s lifetime. So the wrong questions to ask are “Why is my child so difficult?” and “When will he change?” while the right questions would be: “What have I done to create my current problems?” and “How can I start parenting differently?” Questions like these (we call them QBQs) not only represent accountable thinking, they lead to learning—and where there is learning there is change. For many parents, one key change needed is the willingness to adopt this principle: My child is a product of my parenting. With this premise in place, regardless of the age of the child, any parent can become the outstanding mom or dad they wish to be by practicing personal accountability.
John G. Miller Author of ... ‘QBQ! The Question Behind the Question®’, ‘Flipping the Switch ... Unleash the Power of Personal Accountability’, ‘Outstanding! 47 Ways to Make Your Organization Exceptional’, http://www.qbq.com/ Denver, Colorado, USA 303-286-9900 John@QBQ.com
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