One of the most important factor of good parenting is staying consistent when you are dealing with your kids. They’d be getting mixed signals when you cannot enforce or implement what you tell them and asked them to do. This why it is very crucial to be able to say and do the same thing.
When you tell them to tidy up their things, you should ensure that your own things are not scattered everywhere. Disciplining your children should be made by serving as their models and their examples. If you tell them not to drink from the milk cartoon, be sure that you are not doing this too. You have to keep in mind that effective parenting is more than just saying and teaching the right things – it is also about doing and demonstrating the right actions.
It is easy to ask your kids to do something right, but if you yourself cannot follow your words, it will be hard for your child to understand you when you are contradicting your rules and the things you try to teach them. Kids usually imitate the adults around them and this happens unconsciously even without you telling them. You can notice that parents are always careful about their language because kids would easily copy this out of them. So if you are unhappy about how your children are behaving, you might want to check out your own behavior.