Short spoken guidance (YouTube video) on parenting: the speaker emphasizes establishing predictable, firm, and consistent boundaries for children as they progress through developmental stages (infant → toddler → preschooler → youth → preteen → teen). Parents will be repeatedly tested; boundaries provide containment and benefit the child. The advice closes with a reminder to breathe and persist.
You. It's going to test you. They're going to test you. Establishing boundaries, creating those boundaries with your kids as they go from infant to toddler, toddler to, to preschooler to youth, to preteen to teen. They're going to test you. It's going to be challenging. It's going to be hard. And it is your job to be predictable, to be firm, to be, to be consistent so that they understand what the rules are and the confined chaos that kids and teenagers are and how to confine. Find them for your benefit, for, but most importantly for their benefit. So understand that you're going to keep being tested, and it's not going to end. And your job is to create those boundaries, to push back, to have some place where they will bounce off of or be contained. So keep that in mind and breathe.
