Do You Make These Mistakes, When Disciplining Your Child?

Parenting is never easy. Everyone who has kids can tell you that. Children's world is care free without any boundaries. So telling them, that they cannot do something usually ends up in you shouting or forcing them to listen to you.
There are some common mistakes we make as parents when trying to discipline our children. The following points will discuss this in further detail.

• Consequences - How many times do you say to your child, "If you don't stop doing this, I will do that? You will probably end up saying the same thing over and over, and your child will ignore you. Kids are smarter than we think, they know when you are just bluffing. Instead tell your child once, if you don't stop I will give you a time out. Then take action straight away. Your child will realize you mean business and think twice before not listening to you next time.
• Don't Back Down - If you want to discipline your child, then giving in to their every demand is literally suicidal. From a very young age, kids learn to get what they want. Of course as a parent you want to be reasonable, but that does not mean giving in to everything they demand. I used to make the mistake of buying toys nearly every time my son and I went shopping. So as you can imagine it was difficult for my son to accept going out without buying toys. Eventually, I got him to understand that he already has enough toys and he should look after what he has.
• Speak With The Same Voice - Is your husband or wife a total pushover? Can your kids get anything they want because your partner is a big softy? I have spoken to parents who have a hard time disciplining their kids because their partner always gives in. Both parent need to understand that a child is usually looking for ways to get what they want, and if they know one of you is an easy target, they will play up every time. As parents you are undermining one another and causing more problems for yourself in future.
• Bribe Too Often - If you find yourself bribing your little one to behave in a certain way too often, that's not good. Instead try to get your child to learn what they are doing is wrong, give examples of other children behaving well, and try to make them understand that nobody will like them for doing bad. By doing this, you are helping your child develop their conscience. 

The Divide Between MBA Business Consultants and Us Real Entrepreneurs Debated

Look, just between you and I, sometimes I am irked by MBA kids right out of school who instantly become consultants and assume they know everything about business - marketing, customer service, management, finance, employee motivation, and well, basically WINNING in the free-market. You see, I am a real entrepreneur, and yes, I chose to leave school to run my company, I had no choice, I was losing money sitting in class - it made absolutely no sense to me.
After I retired before my 40th Birthday, I thought back on the decisions and choices I'd made, some was lucky timing, but mostly it was taking advantage of opportunities as they appeared. In any case, a consulting acquaintance of mind feels the opposite way on things and he is actively engaged in consulting these days. As he goes, I admit he is gaining lots of business experience. In defense of business schools he states;
"Business schools and leaders across the world owe a huge portion of their influence and their growth to him."
Yes, I understand all that, but, I couldn't let this guy off the hook, so I hit him with a little entrepreneurial "in-your-face" attitude and stated; "Do you have any clue how silly that sounds to an entrepreneur? Business Schools? Ha ha ha. Okay, if that's your thing? But entrepreneurs can hire the business graduates to set things up."
You see, an MBA doesn't make someone an innovator, thinker, or great leader, in fact, all those years of brain washing can take a heavy toll on the creative mind. Most of these kids they graduate couldn't market their way out of a paper bag and some of the business decisions they make, unbelievable how anyone could do something that stupid, I mean totally clueless stuff.
These business plans these kids come up with suck, their strategies are flawed, they can't compete in the real world, and then they have to pay off all those student loans because these business professors command such high salaries and charge $250 for a Text-Book because they have a Monopoly - Guess What? Any business can make money if it has a monopoly - that doesn't make their leaders great entrepreneurs, innovators, thinkers, or brilliant in business.
It only proves Adam Smith was right about the problems in Capitalism with incestuous relationships with government and business. But the King and the East India Tea Company showed us that, not any surprise there. My MBA acquaintance also holds Peter Drucker in the highest esteem, but I told him; Drucker's methods of setting up a business bureaucracy that actually works and can be duplicated as a system of management is okay, but most of the modern corporations today are fairly wasteful, inefficient, and rely on barriers to entry and government defensive lines to block so they can get down the field.
And still, there is the human element, look at how so many corporate boards hi-jack public companies, over pay themselves when their performance sucks. Much of all that also has to do with Drucker, and Warren's "buffet of essays" essentially shows the counter arguments for the mistakes made in corporations. I think Collins "Built to Last" - "From Good to Great" is relevant too, but I see flaws in all of this stuff really. Yes, mostly good granted but, lots of little mistakes, or less-than-BMPs as applied to the real world, nothing that I'd want to write home about.
Care to debate with me on this? I mean care to have a dialogue with a real entrepreneur? Surely, you can handle it right? Fine you are welcome to shoot me an email. Let's talk. Please consider all this.