But you allow a child to find out through consequences which won’t have lasting repercussions. Allowing a kid to climb and maybe fall off of a short ladder is one thing. Allowing them to climb an extension ladder to a third floor is something entirely different.
Right, it's the difference between letting your dumb kid touch the hot stove after you told them no the first time vs physically removing your child away from the plugged in blender they're about to stick their hand into.
One has short term temporary consequences, and the other they'll regret for the rest of their lives.
Depends on how high the roof is.
Still, some of the best parenting I ever did was when I bit my tongue and allowed my daughter to do her thing.
If you never give people a chance to fail, you’ll never give them the chance to succeed.
But you allow a child to find out through consequences which won’t have lasting repercussions. Allowing a kid to climb and maybe fall off of a short ladder is one thing. Allowing them to climb an extension ladder to a third floor is something entirely different.
Right, it's the difference between letting your dumb kid touch the hot stove after you told them no the first time vs physically removing your child away from the plugged in blender they're about to stick their hand into.
One has short term temporary consequences, and the other they'll regret for the rest of their lives.
Or at least repercussions you can have control of.