Partnership

You may have read many parenting books. You may have known many methods by now. You may want to put it into practice. You want to make the theory alive.
Oh well, whatever your method you choose - be it how to develop a routine, to discipline your child during meal time and so on, you need your PARTNER to first agree on the method so that you both can go in the same pathway. Partner means your husband and whoever else involved in taking care your kid. You need all the support you can get! You insist not to give snacks before dinner, but your partner went home with some crackers and happily fed your kid with it. I'm sure that will destroy all your efforts and frustrate you even more. So sit down and discuss your concern and what solution you have found and ask support from your partner so that he or she will be going the same path as you.

To change the kid's bad habit needs preserverence and support from your partner. There will be times when you feel like this doesn't work and you're about to give in, that's when your partner has to keep on encouraging you to keep on going.