What are your house rules

United States
April 6, 2009 9:36pm CST
I am curious to know if any of you have rules in your home that govern behavior and such. We have 3 General Rules that are posted in nearly every room in our house. They are as follows: 1. I do not argue with children. We will discuss things with the kids and will let them advocate for their opinion and will negotiate with them but it is understood that we as the parents and adults in the household have the final word and once a decision is made the discussion is over and our word is final. 2. Fair is not always equal. There are times when one person needs more than another, and times when someone else may need more. In the end it all equals out, but at any given time things may not always be split equally and there are reasons for this. 3. Whining gets you nothing. I can not stand to hear a child whine, it drives me crazy, so it is not permitted. Whining causes loss of privileges and is absolutely not tolerated in my house. Those are our rules, what are some of your rules ands the reasons behind them?
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psychotaz206
@psychotaz206 (2086)
• United States
7 Apr 09
no hitting : my 2 older boys have a habit of hitting thinking it is okay it drives me nuts i explained to them that hitting gets you no where because vilence only leads to more vilence and i wont have it, 2) do not take things with out permission , if they take something that dont belong to them with out asking , we take something of theres and they dont like that at all , i explained to them that if you dont like something done to you dont do it to someone else , 3) respect , thats the one big thing we ask for , i have 4 children my 11 month old dont understand so the rules cant really be put in place for her yet , my 3 year old is working on it , my 6 and 10 year old has problems with it but they are getting there because we told them respect is a powerful thing , we strogle a lot only because my 10 soon to be 11 year old has adhd, odd, bipolar and a few other things so he makes rules hard but hes learning that you break the rules you get into trouble , what makes it even harder is how can you really punish someone who dont really care.