Respect

Being a mother is hard work.  Trying to get children to listen and respect you is hard.  But it is ten times harder when people feel that they have to help you out.

I understand that everyone feels they know best, but as a parent you need to set the tone of what you expect from your children.  It is so important for others in there lives to work with you and not against you. 

With that being said how do you do that? 

We have been on vacation for the past week.  Tyler has been with everyone by mommy for the most part all week.  When he has been with mommy and the need for disapline has arose everyone feels that they need to step in. 

I know that the next week is going to be terrible for mommy.  He is not going to listen and he is going to push because people have stepped in everytime he is being disaplined. 

I am not looking forward to next week.  Having respect from children is hard, but it is ten time harder when people have to step in.