“Do as I say and not as I do” is just stupid.

A child will NOT do as you say if you can’t and/or won’t do the same. As an adult and parent, you should have the will and consciousness to do what you think is best for your child. Children are continually learning and don’t know the difference between right and wrong without proper guidance and role modeling.

If you thought it was good advice for your child so that they could grow into a good person, why wouldn’t you follow it? It’s supposed to be good advice. If you can’t stay consistent between word and action, your child will only follow your footsteps because it’s all they’ve seen you do.

You tell your kids not to drink, yet you down a few cold cans of (basically) poison that does nothing but turn you into an idiot. You tell your kids not to drink soda, but chug a 100oz container you filled up with Mountain Dew at Circle K. You tell them to eat their veggies as you heat up pizza and completely reject any and all veggies given to you.

This pissed me off as a kid, too. I constantly had to tell my parents off for doing this, even though I still took the better option because I could tell it was better. I was in a lot of hard situations where I had to grow up fast, so I’m not like these kids that live in a normal home.

TL;DR - do what you tell your kids to do.

Edit: Where this came from