Honor Roadblocks

#1 Anger
Everyone needs to learn to be a peacemaker. Peacemakers seek to bring people together in agreement and look for solutions where everyone wins.

#2 Selfishness
Teach servanthood

#3 Foolishness
Acting before thinking

Conflict with brothers and sisters is a child's first class in relationships. You home is the classroom, you are the teacher, and honor is the curriculum. Each conflict situation is an opportunity for teaching children how to get along.

Honor-Based Parenting Skills

#1 Be firm without being harsh.
Talk less and show less emotion

#2 Express sorrow instead of anger.

#3 Use problem solving and decision making.
Involve children

#4 Enjoy children according to their needs and interests

#5 Envision a positive future for your children

Obedience does things well.
Honor does them beautifully.

6 Ways to teach honor to children

#1 Teach children to treat people as special.

#2 Teach children to do more than what's expected.

#3 Deal with a bad attitude.

#4 Create honor lessons in life.
Listen with both eyes.
Whoops and Ahhhh game - Whoops for dishonoring speech (i.e. arguing, boasting, whining, complaining, talking too much, being bossy)

#5 Model it.

#6 Appeal to conscience.

Honor

HONOR
Treating people as special,
doing more than what's expected,
and having a good attitude

OBEDIENCE
Doing what someone says,
right away,
without being reminded.

"If you want your children to fly straight, teach them obedience. If you want them to fly high, teach them honor."

from "Say Goodbye to Whining, Complaining, and Bad Attitudes..." by Scott Turansky