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Parenting Keys To Good Parenting
Parenting is the toughest, most important job most people will ever encounter! Being a working parent is even tougher! Yet there is no license required, no training required, and no 24/7 hotline. This is rather short-sighted on the part of society as the cost of bad parenting is immense, but in truth the situation is not as dire as it seems. While no training is required for parents, it is very easy for parents to learn the ways and means of good parenting as well as the traps and pitfalls of bad parenting. All it takes for parents to learn more about parenting is to watch, read, listen, and learn.
Watching: It is a key element to learning more about parenting. Watch the parents around you and you can learn all sorts of lessons about how to interact with your child, how to discipline your child, and how to teach your child. Almost everywhere you take your child there will be other parents and their children. Watching means observing but also listening. Hear the tone of voice as well as the words those parents use. Some parents use the right words but their tone and physical manner contradicts those words. Watch the children to note their response. Some children respond more readily to their parents. Why? What is different about that parent-child relationship? What can you take away for your own parent-child relationship?
Read: Read reliable, tested, and proven information, tips, and guides about parenting. In today's internet information, you do not even have to leave the comforts of your home to learn the parenting lessons you will need to passionately fulfill your responsibilities, obligations, and duties in your role of being a parent. Just as you wil learn from this site, there are millions of other helpful web pages to be found on the internet. Take the time, and put forth a little effort to visit your nearest book store or library to learn some of the best information written on parenting. The more you learn, the better for you and your child, or children.
Listen: Listen to reliable and proven advice. You don't need to take every piece of advice that is offered to you. After all, there are many people who are free with advice and yet have clearly demonstrated they are in no position to offer it. However, there is often some really good advice shared by people you know and trust as well as good advice offered by passing strangers in the supermarket checkout line or in the stands at a game. Be a sponge. Keep your ears open. You don't have to take that advice, but keeping your options open gives you the chance to sort out the jewels and benefit from them.
Learn: Not just learn, but be an active learner. Seek out information when you face a parenting challenge. Perhaps your child is acting out in a new way and your old discipline technique isn't working. Search the internet parenting forums, flip through parenting books, and ask some experts in your circle of friends. Sometimes great advice will come to you, but other times you will need to seek it out. The more proactive you are about finding solutions to your parenting problems, the better parent you will become.
Parenting is a challenging job, no question about it, but it also comes with wonderful built-in rewards. Some times parents are forced to take a tough unpopular stand, but in the end... good parenting comes with its own rewards. Those rewards include a happy, successful child or children, and a warm, loving relationship that will extend long past childhood and span the rest of your life. So who needs special training? If you watch, listen, and learn then you can be the parent you want to be and your child or children deserve.
The Parenting Creed
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On my honor, I will do my best to passionately fulfill my duties, responsibilities, and obligations for the child or children which are gifted to me and entrusted in my care. |
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