Things I DO NOT Let My Kids Do (and reasons why...)

I don't know if this is weird of me but I don't let my son "kill" bugs or hurt plants. I always tell him that these are living creatures and they deserve our respect. He was shaking a tree branch roughly and we had a conversation about how the tree give us oxygen so we can breath. He hasn't roughed up another plant since. SPONGES!!!!! Love you Sarah! Such a great mom! I love the idea of having your child say thank you to the person who made their meal. So simple but so powerful!

i think an interesting video would be "things i let my kids do" with things a lot of parents don't let their kids do

I don't let me kids be rough with our dog or cat. From a very young age we teach them gentle touches and where to touch.

I don’t discipline my children in front of other people, minus their dad. I remember being totally chewed out by my dad, or screamed at by my mom in front of my friends or random strangers and I was so embarrassed and overwhelmed that I couldn’t even focus on what they were saying or what I was in trouble for (my parents and myself as a parent are extremely different people). I’ve ever had to resort to the football carry a few times when my daughter got extremely overwhelmed and lost it (she was tired). But I won’t reprimand them in front of other people, I think it’s important to show respect and compassion, even in tough situations. I also don’t undermine my husband in front of the kids, and vice versa. If I put them in time out, I take them out, not him. He doesn’t interrupt me when I’m speaking to them seriously. Stuff like that. And on the off chance it does happen, we apologize to the kids as well as the spouse, so they know we made a mistake. I won’t ever let my kids think I think I’m perfect, I want them to watch me handle all situations. I know this is more what we do as parents instead of what I don’t let my kids do but it’s similar lol. I don’t let my kids play outside or step outside without me knowing or being with them

I didn't have my first phone til I was 14. It makes me sick when I see 7-year-olds with newer phones than I have.

As a neighbor to 5 kids (all 1.5 - 8 years old), I appreciate that you dont let your kids scream unless they are in real danger.

I think the best one is not letting them touch your phone. There’s a couple million parents out there that would have done themselves, their kids, and lots of other people (coming from the perspective of a school bus driver) a huge favor. Kids literally get addicted. They can’t look away from the screen. It’s crazy.

The trash thing: I taught my kids to pick it up and look for the trash can to put it into. We would always clean our hands afterwards of course. I explained is very bad to leave trash behind and some people do that and it's wrong. So now my kids never leave their own trash behind and pick up any trash they find on the sidewalk and they're the eco guardians of our neighborhood xD

I agreed with most of those :) I do not force my kiddo to show affection. I don't allow (mostly adults) into bullying her into giving hugs or other affection if she doesn't want to. She will generally give high 5's. But sometimes if she isn't comfortable with that either I tell them maybe next time and reaffirm that she does not need to give affection if she doesn't want to.

YES about screaming. My mother never let us yell unless something was wrong, as a courtesy to the people around us. It amazes me how many parents just let their kids screech all over the place and disturb other people. They usually grow up to be the adults who have no volume control. EDIT: can y'all chill, i know ASD exists

Something that my parents always enforced with my siblings and I was that you never point a gun at someone. No pointing nerf guns, finger guns, toy guns, pellet guns, and obviously real guns. It didn’t matter if we were playing or Messing around for jokes. We were taught that guns were something to be respected. I’m also from the west, so lots of people own and shoot guns frequently. It stemmed from when my dad was little and his friend took his dads gun off the wall, and jokingly aimed and pulled the trigger on another kid, not knowing the gun was loaded, and killed his friend. I thought it was weird growing up, but I’m glad I was taught that weapons are no joke and not for play or fun. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

When I was born my mum made the decision to be completely open with me any question I had was answered in detail making sure i fully understood like periods, pregnancy, smoking nothing was off limits and it stopped me from wanting to experiencing taboo things myself and I would want to do that with my kids

as someone who was constantly put into time out as a child, i don’t talk to my parents about my feelings. didn’t when i was growing up either. being isolated when i was upset about something taught me that my parents didn’t care how i was feeling. i’m not telling anyone how to parent, but it’s something to consider.

I'm only 16 but I enjoy watching these videos because I learn so much and actually think about how I am going to raise my kids when I grow up. I was not raised so well, I have a lot of problems from this and your videos help me a lot to prepare for being a wife/mom. :)

I didn’t realize there were parents that didn’t have there kids help with cleaning until i started posting about my 2 year old helping me wipe the table. I was blown away by the back lash saying “she’s to young let her be a kid” 😳 I was raised to help out and I’ve passed that down to my kids we all are a family that has responsibility’s and I love teaching my kids how to take care of themselves ♥️

Nobody ever told me to do it, but the very first time my very first kid full-up SCREAMED for no reason I decided that wasn't happening. Our go-to statement was "we only scream if it's an emergency. Is this an emergency?"

I am a preschool teacher and I agree with everything you have said! Way to go! Parenting used to be a profession and most treat it as a hobby. You however do not treat it as a hobby. So nice to hear there are parents like you out there.

Can you make a video on how you discipline your kids? Like how you deal with tantrums, when they dont get along with others, etc?

I talked to my daughter about cigarettes when she was about 3.5 when she was asking what they were on the ground. For about a year after she told everyone we saw smoking out and about that they were going to die. She was worried about people, it was not generally well received 🤦🏻‍♀️😅

Every time I speak of giving my son discipline, I get accused to beating him because I take him in the bathroom to do it when in public. I take him to the bathroom to not embarrass him but basically its a time out, one minute per year old, and discuss why it was wrong and what to do instead. Its the people that accuse me of abuse that have the biggest misbehaved kids. Lol