Sunday, September 21, 2014

Preparing Your Kids For Life With Sound Parenting

By Beth Casas


It's unfortunate that so many adults turn away from their parenting responsibilities, but the rest of us cannot let down our guard. This role of yours comes with no shortage of feedback, and most of the time it's from your kids. Helping out parents all over the place is a noble pursuit and that's why we're here. Here are three shovel-ready parenting methods and techniques you can use straight away.

When you have teenagers, it can feel like you're always in the throes of negotiations. You know what they're doing because you did the same thing as all kids when growing up. Just in case, if you are a naturally strong personality (authority), then consider moving more to displaying authoritarian behavior which is different. Sometimes it's not so much that they want to be difficult or disobedient, but there's a conflict of some kind, so just ask them what they feel is a good solution, and then listen and go from there.

There's really nothing at all wrong with creating work or helping out chores for your young children, and this is how to form a foundation with them. One of the easiest tasks, in theory perhaps, is encouraging them to put toys back in the toy box when they're done, or at the end of the day. The typical battle grounds are bedrooms, but if they have a play room then that's another opportunity. What we're talking about here are all the usual things mothers fight with their kids over, but this is good stuff for them to learn.

Putting a lack of acceptance on the shoulders of a young child or even teenager can be too much for them. This is about providing positive and sincere feedback, and you can do this with anything they do from doing a nice job around the house on something, for instance. This is all about focusing on the positive and not hammering on the negative so much, if at all.

Your children need to learn how to socialize and interact with others because this will teach them about making friends and other positive things like sharing toys. The tips we have been talking about are very solid and reliable and will help. Don't get discourage if you're single because that's the norm these days, it seems. The web is great for networking with other parents, and you'll make friends and learn along the way.




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