Pesticide
Pesticide-A chemical used to kill pests, especially insects.
My blog friend sire has seemingly stumbled upon this little gardening experiment of a blog I’ve got going. He asked in my last post if I had done anything on "pesticide". I left a link to a post I’d done on pests. In that post, I sort of left off at "pesticide", leaving that up to each family and each situation.
I do believe that there are many different forms of "pest control" that parents can and should utilize. I do not think that any one form will work for every child at every age in every situation. I like to try to stay creative and vary my ways of controlling the pests that can invade our children’s lives. It seems that as they grow, the best forms of pesticide in their lives also change. Sitting in "time out" is not going to do much for our 15 year old (although grounding is really a form of extended time out, I suppose.)
Though there are times when I may consider just wringing the necks of my children and the pests that invade their lives, it is not always feasible, nor would it really serve any good purpose! I recently left a comment on a cyber-friend’s blog (who claims to be better than supernanny!) that I feel like prevention is always the best medicine.
Foreseeing a problem and set up ways and guidelines to prevent the pests from ever entering in the first place seems to be the smartest and easiest pesticide to implement. For my young kids and nephews, I use creative pesticides like sitting in chair position against a wall, holding a large dictionary in outstretched arms, groundings, mouth washings, sentences, and "over-correcting". But these do not truly seem to be pesticides, as I do not think they will ultimately change a child’s heart, even if they do change a behavior.
It occurs to me that the ultimate pesticide is within the child himself. It starts while they are very young and goes on into adulthood. It is up to the parent to instill values and integrity in the child. They must teach and inspire self-discipline in the child. When the child begins to be devoured by pests, it will eventually be up to him to remove them himself. It will take years of loving, patient practice and internalizing for this to truly take effect. As for me, the verdict is still out. But I am holding onto the key ultimate pest control as being self-discipline.
My blog friend sire has seemingly stumbled upon this little gardening experiment of a blog I’ve got going. He asked in my last post if I had done anything on "pesticide". I left a link to a post I’d done on pests. In that post, I sort of left off at "pesticide", leaving that up to each family and each situation.
I do believe that there are many different forms of "pest control" that parents can and should utilize. I do not think that any one form will work for every child at every age in every situation. I like to try to stay creative and vary my ways of controlling the pests that can invade our children’s lives. It seems that as they grow, the best forms of pesticide in their lives also change. Sitting in "time out" is not going to do much for our 15 year old (although grounding is really a form of extended time out, I suppose.)
Though there are times when I may consider just wringing the necks of my children and the pests that invade their lives, it is not always feasible, nor would it really serve any good purpose! I recently left a comment on a cyber-friend’s blog (who claims to be better than supernanny!) that I feel like prevention is always the best medicine.
Foreseeing a problem and set up ways and guidelines to prevent the pests from ever entering in the first place seems to be the smartest and easiest pesticide to implement. For my young kids and nephews, I use creative pesticides like sitting in chair position against a wall, holding a large dictionary in outstretched arms, groundings, mouth washings, sentences, and "over-correcting". But these do not truly seem to be pesticides, as I do not think they will ultimately change a child’s heart, even if they do change a behavior.
It occurs to me that the ultimate pesticide is within the child himself. It starts while they are very young and goes on into adulthood. It is up to the parent to instill values and integrity in the child. They must teach and inspire self-discipline in the child. When the child begins to be devoured by pests, it will eventually be up to him to remove them himself. It will take years of loving, patient practice and internalizing for this to truly take effect. As for me, the verdict is still out. But I am holding onto the key ultimate pest control as being self-discipline.
