Zero Tolerance Parenting: Navigating Rudeness and Setting Boundaries for Back-to-School Success

We’re gonna have a brief back to school parenting discussion, okay? So some people will say to me, wow, like, some of this woman who works with me, she’s like, wow, how is your daughter so well behaved, and she’s so sweet and she’s so nice, etcetera. And there is no perfect child nor perfect parent. And believe me, we all have our moments. But I’ll just tell you, whether you like me or not, how I handle a situation. If I walk into my daughter’s room and she is rude, or in any situation rude in any way, like, in any kind of way where she thinks we’re peers and she can speak to me a certain way, I will take a pause, regroup, await an apology. And if I don’t get one, but that’s genuine, and often that’s not even good enough, I walk back into her room, I go, hi. Let me explain to you how this is gonna go. There’s a zero. How about this zero tolerance policy for rudeness. The life that you have is unlike anyone else’s life. Like, the details we don’t need to go into, but, like, the experiences, the places you’re going, the things you do, the way I prioritize you. So there’s a zero. I will take it all the way in an instant. I will take it all. It’s a come to Jesus, back to school moment. Yes. I do not negotiate with terrorists. What do you do?