Pressure is Everything.

Very little in this world happens unless someone pressures someone to do something. This is no less true in our family lives. For our children there are two controlling forces; “Peer Pressure” and “Parent Pressure”.  From the very first day our children start in school they hear that school is bad, homework is bad, teachers are bad, the principal is bad, and on and on and on. There are very few real life cases where children do well in school without pressure from their parents. If you’re not pushing your kid and insisting on good grades you probably have a kid that is scoring “C’s” and “D’s” on his or her report card. If this is the case in your family, don’t fret; you can fix this problem easily. “CLAMP DOWN” and start applying some good old “Parent Pressure”. 

Simply put, pressure is telling the child they must do something or else.  It’s the “or else” that counts. Right off the bat I can tell you that spanking, hitting, or any other form of physical abuse does not work. Emotional abuse like “go to your room”, “be by yourself”, “name calling”, also does not work. The fact is that there is only one kind of pressure that works with kids, “LOVE  - PRESSURE”. And boy, does it work well. 

Love pressure is when you drop everything you are doing and reschedule you whole life around solving your kid's problems. Love pressure teaches your kid that they are the most important person on the planet. Once you start applying love pressure your kid will give up resisting and start learning. If you can keep it up for twelve years you are guaranteed to have a successful college student on your hands. Then you can turn them loose and let them do what ever the heck he or she wants.