5 Ways To Be a Better Parent
Small changes to your
parenting style can have a big impact on your children
Here
are 10 small changes you could make to your parenting style that will bring you
a long way to a happier, healthier family dynamic:
1 BE INTERESTED IN YOUR CHILD'S LIFE
When our lives are busy, even frenetic, it is easy to get caught
up in the whirlwind of chores, homework, taxiing children around, our own work
and so on.
Within this, we can lose sight of our children and what is going
on for them in school, with friends and even at the hobbies or pastimes we work
to facilitate for them.
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2 PRIORITIES YOUR CHILDREN
This
follows directly from being interested in them and what they are doing. As soon
as you can create more space for them, by pausing, you will find it easier to
engage with them.
Creating
that space might mean delaying some chores until after they are asleep, or not
volunteering on a committee, or pausing your favorite TV show.
3 SHOW YOUR CHILDREN WHAT YOUR VALUES ARE
Children
need our actions to fit with what we say. There is no point in talking about
honesty, loyalty, patience and so on, unless we are demonstrating those same
values in our dealings with our children and with others.
4 BECOME PREDICTABLE FOR YOUR CHILDREN
When
we don't know what to expect we can become anxious or fearful. We end up on
edge and having to be hyper vigilant or alert. When things are more predictable
we can relax. The same will be true for your children with your behavior.
5 SEE THE WORLD FROM YOUR CHILD'S PERSPECTIVE
Most
parents have their own agenda, their own needs and their own expectations of
what should and shouldn't be done. Often this guides our interactions with our
children, to the exclusion of their agenda, their needs or their expectations
of themselves.
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