Loving adults serve as examples
Children learn to exercise their responsible use of power in three ways. First, powerful children have loving adults who serve as powerful examples. This person is someone close to a child—a parent, grandparent or someone else they know and look up to. This model articulates important values, acts consistently with them, and applies important priorities in their relationship with a child. They set reasonable, fair, and consistent limits for children and enforce these limits firmly but fairly. They have a psychological strength that is embedded in love for a child.