Love the post. We do our best to follow our own principles but we aren't perfect. I'm guilty of blurting out the infamously annoying, 'Because I said so'. Usually out of frustration.  Posts like this are great reminders that we've gotta keep ourselves accountable if we expect it from our kids. I've noticed a lot lately that the way we interact with our kids is very different than how our parents interact with them and us. We've learned that breaking the habits or behaviors that we were taught as children is not easy to do as adults so we want to do better for our kids so that they don't have the same bad habits we were taught. We don't spank, we listen when our kids talk and actually have real conversations with them, we value their opinions & feelings and when we do mess up we apologize and talk about how we could have made better choices. :)