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Susan Eppley

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Never Too Late To Teach The Three R's

Is it too late for these Avondale Estates parents of a disrespectful and irresponsible teen?

Dear Susan, I am the parent of a 14 year-old but my husband and I have failed to teach her responsibility and respect.  Is it too late? Worried in Avondale Estates   Dear Worried, It’s never too late.  But that doesn’t mean it’s going to be easy. One of the things that Leadership Parents teach their kids is the Three R’s:  Respect, Responsibility and Resourcefulness. They do this by adopting a leadership attitude, allowing their children to solve their own problems and refusing to enable their children.   In order to, at this stage of the game, teach your daughter these three essential traits, you will have to do something that is probably the very thing you’ve been avoiding for the past 14 years. You are going to have to make your …

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