- “Kids should always comply with their parents”
- “Kids are unable to self-control”
- “My daughter wants to manipulate (or control) me”
- “My child is bad”
- “My child is defiant”
- “My child has ODD (oppositional defiant disorder)”
- “He is just like his father; it’s genetic”
- “I was the same as a kid”
- “I must intervene; If I let them alone, they will kill each other”
“family time should be always fun time”
“structure is needed always for kids to flourish”
“don’t be hipocrite; if I can’t have it then you can’t have it either (or “we should all have equal rights in the family”)
“She is still young for that (imposing ‘age appropriate’ behaviors)”
I respond to my child the way my parents responded to me when I was a child