Parent Talk / September 2007
Raising Your Children - 5 Great Tips
By Linda G. Robert
1. Provide your child with what they need in order to grow according to age and/or awareness.
Your children need you for different reasons as they mature. At the very beginning, they need you to provide the basic needs such as food, safety, and shelter. Then, they need you to discover the feeling of love and belonging. Children learn about love and belonging by being exposed to loving relationships, which may also include friends, teammates, and neighbors. All along, they also need you to help them develop their self-esteem. And finally, they need you to help them self-actualize and become all they can be.
2. Treat your children with respect and dignity.
Yes, your children will need guidance along the way. Yes, they’ll need discipline and structure so that they can survive in the world. While you provide them with what they need in order to grow strong roots, it will be also important to treat them with respect and dignity, because this is also what they’ll need to know when they become adults.
3. Expose them only to things, people and places which will nurture their growth.
What activities do your children seem most passionate about? What pastimes do they seem to get so caught up in that they lose track of time? What places leave them feeling energized about life? What type of people do your children seem to be connecting? Being aware of these things about your children and expose them to people, places and things that nurture their growth.
4. Develop a parent code of conduct for yourself.
When you became a parent, you signed on for life. Yes, your code of conduct as a parent will change as your children grow and as you learn more. Some of these questions will be helpful to draft your first code of conduct. What are your requirements as a parent? What are your needs and your desires concerning parenting? What will you expect from yourself? The answers to these questions, will determine your code of conduct. Like a code of ethics, these are intentions that you will live up to, while you’re parenting your children.
5. Develop a vision statement for parenting your children.
A vision statement is sometimes like a picture in the future, but it’s so much more. Your vision statement is your inspiration -- the framework for all your strategic planning. Now apply this concept to your parenting approach. It will completely revolutionize how you parent your children.
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