Consistency and an enriching environment are so necessary for all of us and so few of us get to enjoy either.

Parenting today is probably more complex than it has ever been. Both parents may need to work. A household may be single-parented. So much information coming from every direction. Labels handed out to children at every turn. And the child may have very different ideas of how things should be and resist all sorts of well-meaning attempts to mould him. Then there is the influence of peers and other adults.

Reading your post, I wish more people took your suggested approach but I also know for some, because of a lack of resources, they just can't or wouldn't even know how. There is no easy solution for some. Things are the only way they can be. I guess in these cases compassion and patience is the only way to approach.