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Parenting Blog posts insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domain of the parenting facet of life. Parenting Blog: Parenting-Tips News 1 Parenting Tips that Respect Children: June 30, 2007 by Tara Paterson
• Honor your child’s feelings about a person or experience. Whether a child misperceives the way something is said or done is irrelevant if it provokes emotion for your child. Adjust according to how your child feels; you will show your child you respect what they have to say and they will respect you for trusting their emotions. Parenting Blog: Parenting-Tips News 1 (Continued) • Be willing to be flexible with your child over punishments handed out in frustration or anger in the moment. We all make a big deal about things at times unnecessarily and if we are willing to be honest with our child when we overreact, they will respect what you say when you mean business. Set boundaries firmly, but keep in mind that not everything is a crisis. Parenting Blog: Parenting-Tips News 1 (Continued) • When you are feeling emotion or are upset about something, acknowledge the emotion and feel a shift in your body before you respond to your child. We all feel anger and frustration at times, but just as we teach our children not to take out their frustrations on other people and things, neither should we. Parenting Blog: Parenting Tips News 1 (Continued) • Consider the qualities you want your child to have later in life and be careful not to push these qualities down in the present. It can be very challenging to keep in mind at a time of frustration, that later in life we want our kids to be independent, headstrong, and persistent. We need to nurture these characteristics as our children grow even when they are using them on us! Parenting Blog: Parenting Tips News 1 (Continued) • Be willing to acknowledge, accept, and apologize for overreacting in a situation with your child. When you are willing to admit you are wrong, you show your child how to correct their own mistakes. They will respect your authority when they are doing something inappropriate. Parenting Blog: Parenting Tips News 2 Parenting Tips to Empower Parents to Interact Positively with Their Child: June 27, 2007 by Tara Paterson
• Trust your feelings about how to parent your child. There are no experts, only people who can offer you advice. The expert is you and every child is unique in their experience. • Honor your child’s natural abilities. Every child is unique and needs to be recognized for the values they have within themselves. Parenting Blog: Parenting Tips News 2 (Continued) • Be willing to be flexible while correcting your child. Punishments handed out while feeling frustration or anger are usually overreactions to how we are feeling in the moment. • Set firm boundaries with your child if it is necessary, but remember not everything is a crisis. Parenting Blog: Parenting Tips News 2 (Continued) • Be willing to acknowledge, accept, and apologize for overreacting in a situation with your child. When you are willing to admit you are wrong, you show your child how to correct their own mistakes. They will respect your authority when they are doing something inappropriate. • Honor your child’s feelings about a person or experience. Whether a child misperceives the way something is said or done is irrelevant if it provokes emotion for your child. Adjust according to how your child feels; you will show your child you respect what they have to say and they will respect you for trusting their emotions. Parenting Blog: Parenting Tips News 2 (Continued) • Feel free to set limits with your child. Be willing to pass on performing a task, simply because you feel you have to. Doing something in the space of not wanting to, will lead to resentment later when you feel tired or burnt out. • Embrace your desire to do something for yourself. When your needs are met, you will have more energy and patience to do the things your children want you to do. You must first nurture your own needs so you can nurture the needs of others in your life. Parenting Blog: Parenting Tips News 2 (Continued) • When you are feeling emotion or upset within yourself, acknowledge the emotion and shift the feeling before you interact with your child. We all feel anger and frustration at times, but just as we teach our children not to take out their frustrations on things, animals, or people; neither should we. • Honor your child’s natural rhythm. Children are often rushed to do too much in this day and age which often causes their bodies stress and confusion. Give them a say in free time activities and be willing to change plans if it will bring more peace to your family. Parenting Blog: Parenting Tips News 2 (Continued) • Encourage your child to make choices. Choices allow your child to have independence and makes learning more meaningful. Explain to your child that every experience comes with a choice and assist them with making healthy ones. • Enjoy each moment and the rest will come. Parenting Blog: Parenting Tips News 3 Fathers in Cayman Brac share parenting tips: Wednesday, July 4, 2007 As part of the National Parenting Programme’s (NPP) continued outreach to enhance parenting skills in the Cayman Islands, NPP Parent Educator Hylton Grace recently hosted two “Fatherhood and the Family” sessions in Cayman Brac. The two meetings were attended by some 30 fathers. Parenting Blog Comment: More than mere parenting tips; I propose training both, mothers as well as fathers, in the science and the art of parenting before they give birth to their first child. It will be something akin to the science and the art of life as such. I also propose making it mandatory for the parents before they start parenting their kids. But then, who will be the trainers? And where shall we find them on earth? Do we have an enough supply of the wo/men of knowledge and insight on this planet? I don't think we have. There can be no qualification for insight. Can there be something else then, which does the job? Something else that wakes us up from our eons of slumber that we have been dozing in and letting our planet go to hell! I invite you to subscribe to my E-zine titled Life Coach, free of charge. This E-zine publishes insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domains of various facets of life. A not-to-be-missed opportunity! Subscribe to it here: I also invite you to subscribe to my Life Blog - no need to provide your e-mail address here. This RSS feed keeps you informed about new developments taking place on this site. It also harbors 25 journal bloglets posting insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domains of various facets of life. In order to subscribe to the blog, right-click on the orange RSS button (see buttons up to the left) and then paste the URL into your RSS reader. Or click on add to My Yahoo! button or My MSN or Add To Google button if you keep a personalized home page there. If you are not sure what RSS or blogging is all about, click on What's an RSS Feed? here:
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