Learn from your parenting blunders
DEAR parent, The sun has set on the year 2007 and we have set our feet in 2008. Happy New Year! <br>It must have been a year of challenges and great learning opportunities. As a parent, your family remains a central measure of your success and parenting your children remains a journey that you can
DEAR parent, The sun has set on the year 2007 and we have set our feet in 2008. Happy New Year!
It must have been a year of challenges and great learning opportunities. As a parent, your family remains a central measure of your success and parenting your children remains a journey that you can only travel one day at a time.
Mignon McLaughlin, a journalist and author, in The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, wrote: “Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.â€Â There is no perfection in parenting; we all have to learn daily. Have you made some mistakes in your parenting role?
Congratulations! Mistakes show you are learning. The 2007 mistakes are a milestone for growth in 2008. It is time to set new strategies and move forward.
Did you know that every normal child needs two parents who love each other? The greatest New Year gift you can offer your children is to love your spouse.
Your love, respect and sensitivity towards your spouse provides a classic environment in which young personalities thrive. Your marriage relationship, therefore, is not just a pillar of family support but also a model of respect for your children. The relationship you have with your spouse is a model that enables your children to develop a healthy attitude towards people of the opposite sex.
Parenthood is a relational task. No child will bond with you unless you are intimately involved in their life. A bond or intimacy does not just fall from space; you have to build it.
Challenging as they might be, every child is a bundle of potentials that needs to be tapped. Within every child is a blossoming rose waiting to be nurtured. You might have looked at your child and seen only thorns of misbehaviour and unending faults, but the child is more than this. The beautiful rose within your child needs to be identified and watered, to blossom.
Approach 2008 with a different approach. You might have dished out more criticisms than praise last year, but who says you cannot change style this year? Yes, your child might be displaying more thorns than roses, but nurturing their beautiful roses enables them to conquer their thorns.
As much as you need to set an example, you might not necessarily travel the same paths with your children. Let your children exercise their individuality.
It must have been a year of challenges and great learning opportunities. As a parent, your family remains a central measure of your success and parenting your children remains a journey that you can only travel one day at a time.
Mignon McLaughlin, a journalist and author, in The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, wrote: “Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.â€Â There is no perfection in parenting; we all have to learn daily. Have you made some mistakes in your parenting role?
Congratulations! Mistakes show you are learning. The 2007 mistakes are a milestone for growth in 2008. It is time to set new strategies and move forward.
Did you know that every normal child needs two parents who love each other? The greatest New Year gift you can offer your children is to love your spouse.
Your love, respect and sensitivity towards your spouse provides a classic environment in which young personalities thrive. Your marriage relationship, therefore, is not just a pillar of family support but also a model of respect for your children. The relationship you have with your spouse is a model that enables your children to develop a healthy attitude towards people of the opposite sex.
Parenthood is a relational task. No child will bond with you unless you are intimately involved in their life. A bond or intimacy does not just fall from space; you have to build it.
Challenging as they might be, every child is a bundle of potentials that needs to be tapped. Within every child is a blossoming rose waiting to be nurtured. You might have looked at your child and seen only thorns of misbehaviour and unending faults, but the child is more than this. The beautiful rose within your child needs to be identified and watered, to blossom.
Approach 2008 with a different approach. You might have dished out more criticisms than praise last year, but who says you cannot change style this year? Yes, your child might be displaying more thorns than roses, but nurturing their beautiful roses enables them to conquer their thorns.
As much as you need to set an example, you might not necessarily travel the same paths with your children. Let your children exercise their individuality.