5 Tips to Foster a Positive Parenting Experience by Irene Aasland

As a parent, you probably did everything to instill great values to your kids. You've went through acomplicated journey just to figure out the best way of nurturing them. Well, don't you ever complain. It's your responsibility. It's your job!
So what are the results? Have you discovered the keys that could help you in raising your kids? Well, if doubts are still flooding your thoughts right now, you're missing to unmask the silver lining - not getting the positive results you're expecting to happen.
Hopefully, these tips would help you in your parenting journey.
1.) Be Fair
Do you have 2 or more children? If you have, you probably have an idea about "fair and square." Of course, it's a popular phrase - one that works for everybody. In fact, this actually holds every atmosphere of your disciplinary actions.
So if you corrected child 1 for misbehaving because of doing something wrong, don't forget to treat the same disciplinary action to child 2. It would be unfair for child 1 if you won't correct child 2's common mistakes. Be fair.
2.) Stay Friendly
One of the most common mistakes of parents, is using a military approach in disciplining their kids. Though it's not that common to some families (especially elite), but in families of the opposite term, this one is rampant.Being friendly is a very important element in fostering a positive tone in your parenting life. Kids won't treat you as their enemy.
They won't even consider you as a monster or some sort of tyranny. Indeed, this is will
help maintain a positive parent-child relationship despite of modern parenting challenges.
3.) Be open. Always listen.
Some parents are driven with principles like being a greedy dictator of a certain tribe. Sad to say, they uphold parenting concepts which are traditional and extremely inappropriate to the modern era. If you're one of them, you would certainly unable to create a positive relationship with your children.
You have to be open to new ideas since everything today is in constant change. Learn to adapt to concepts that would enable your parenting manners stay on positive grounds.
Also, listen to your kids' desires, dreams, ideas, complaints, problems and conflicts. It's the only way to understand them deeply. Of course, understanding them is one of your goals as a parent!
4.) Set a rule that won't suffocate them.
Well, rules or let's say limitations to your kids are vital along their growth. But before implementing rules, consider these things first:
l Are those rules match with your community? (It's subjective if your family is living in a chaotic community. But let's just assumed that you lived in an ideal community.)
l Can it bring a healthy parent-child relationship?
l Are those parameters fair to both of you?
l Can it bring happiness?
Think for a while, if those questions answer with a "no," you are creating or have created unfair rules. So change or fix it before it's too late. Be certain that you always put this on your mind before making such rules to your kids. You have to be flexible on this.
5.) Keep having fun with them
Your aim is to foster a positive relationship to your kids. If everything doesn't feel good or not making you both happy, that would mean that it's not positive at all.
Be reminded that a positive life is also a kingdom of immeasurable joy and extreme bliss. So consider sustaining a blissful atmosphere with your kids. It won't just make you both joyous. Indeed, it would bring satisfaction on your parenting experiences as well.

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