Obedience

 

Obedience - in accordance with;

submission to rule;

compliance to authority or command.

 

 

'As parents, we are an authority over our children.
We determine what and when they eat (nutrition); when and where they play (safety);

what sports they will initially pursue (physical);

and what they wear each day according to the weather (health).

 

We also decide what they play and learn (educational);

whom they mix with (social)

and we also determine what values and beliefs they will be taught (spiritual).

 

Establishing our parental authority also involves training our children to obey us.
Basically it will require abundant praise for compliance and a firm consequence for non-compliance. '

 

(Terrific Toddlers 2, page 27)