Best Parents

Every parent strives to be a good parent and good parenting is all about doing the things that we think are right for our kids. Therefore, managing changing child behaviour with good parenting skills is a necessary parenting step that every parent must take the time to perfect.

Although parental authority must always be maintained, teaching your children how to negotiate is a skill that they can carry with them their whole lives.

However, some may think that bargaining with your child is not an effective parenting technique, but if done correctly, bargaining with your child will not compromise your authority, in fact it will actually strengthen it even more.

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Within the past fifty years, motherhood has gone from exaltation to embarrassment. Instead of being proud to claim motherhood as a career, we cower in the corner and mumble out a feeble, "I’m JUST a mom!" Just a mom? Give me a break! This entire mentality wasn’t even present in our culture until recently. The media is a powerful force! It can discredit motherhood with its lies and we just gulp them up like hot doughnuts. So, what lies are you living?

Lie #1–You need to take a load off. Have you heard this lie lately? It’s subversive because there is so much truth in it that is being distorted. We see it in magazines, commercials, talk shows…moms are being stretched so thin, trying to do everything under the sun. Sooner or later, there is going to be a straw that breaks the camel’s back. Before it’s too late, mama, you had better take a load OFF! Well, here’s the truth in it. Yes! We often do too much, but think for a second about what we’re doing. What is eating up so much of your time that you can’t do the really important stuff like raise your kids? How many television shows are you watching during a week? How often do you try to beat someone’s high score on a Facebook game? How long do you spend talking on the phone? When today’s culture tells us to take a load off, they mean to drop the kids off somewhere and take time for YOU. I’m ready to tell you that you need to take a load off where it really matters. Find those pointless time wasters that are pulling you away from the family and drop those from your life!

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Manhood comes with all kinds of responsibilities. From the moment we were born to this world, we already have a set of roles we should all learn to take to in to deeper consideration than the ones we will have for ourselves. An easier way to look at manhood is to look at the consequences of disobeying those responsibilities.

Fatherhood never comes in easy to a man’s life, this state of maturity in terms of relationship and responsibility can never be taken lightly by anyone, let alone be taken for granted and treated of less importance. It will be like an epitome of fathers all around the world to see the whole picture of being a good father in the eyes of their own child. Thinking of all the possible things you could be handling at this stage of your life could only mean that all men ought to be prepared for it. But could a teenager or unmarried man practice fatherhood? Well, before you can become a father, you must first become a good brother and a good friend. These two roles of manhood can be like your golf cart wheels which will turn for your advancement to the location of your golf ball, taking it to the hole, to the goal. But how can be a brother or being a friend be counted as prerequisites to good fatherhood? We will be taking these roles to consideration one by one.

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All that can be taught when we get angry and punish our children with harsh words or physical punishment, is that we believe that is an appropriate approach to difficulties. It is not. Violence only leads to more violence.

Children need more than food, shelter and clothing from the significant males in their lives. They need to know they are accepted and taught with kind discipline until they can learn to practice self discipline.They need to learn to solve problems in a safe environment.

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After 20 years as a parent educator – there’s nothing I haven’t heard and very little that surprises me. What interests and inspires me is how much we parents have in common with each other. And as a mom who raised 5, highly independent and self-sufficient kids and as a parent educator who has talked with hundreds of thousands of parents about life with their kids, I feel qualified to share this fun list of what I consider the "Top 10 Parenting Complaints" Enjoy.

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Take a trip down memory lane, how did your parents try to manage your behaviour. Were they controlling, guiding or just laid back. Chances are that you probably use the same techniques to discipline your own offspring. We all would have learnt from experiences throughout our own childhood.

The way your parents brought you up is probably the same way you are raising your children right now.

Diana Baumrind (1967) suggests that there are three parenting styles used by parents to help children with behaviour.

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The relationship between a parent and his child is the most important of all: if they have a normal relationship, full of affection and respect, than the child will develop normally, but if their relationship is based on anger, the child will then have a less normal life. The parent has a very important job: he has to give a shape to his child’ s personality, to help him become a civilized and decent adult! This means that the parent needs to place restrictions and limitations on his child’s behavior in order to make him understand if he is wrong or if he does something bad, even if this could frustrate his child and if something like this would make him angry.

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As children mature, different events coupled with varying emotions are facing them. These emotions trigger lots of feelings like anger, jealousy, sadness, happiness, loneliness, the sense of being proud, sense of fulfillment and many others.

However, the parents of today’s generation often feel and consider that their children are still young to handle different kinds of emotions. But parents should remember that it is better to help your children have confidence because the child who is confident is secured of his skills and abilities and is able to recognize and accept his strengths and limitations.

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All kids experiment with lying, younger kids most especially. The most crucial age wherein a child learns to deliberately lie, often a blend of reality and fantasy, is between the ages 3 and 7. It is during this age when kids are likely to invent imaginary friends or companions who become their guilty counterparts whenever they did something wrong. When that happens, be an adult and do not take the lie personally.

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The strength of relationships with our children today… will become the foundation of humanity evolution; therefore, pay close attention to what they say, as they will surely be the leaders of tomorrow.

Many people today believe connection with our children is based only upon parenting roles, or teaching them what adults believe to be the necessary skills and values to fit in with society. However, the underlying problem with that type of guidance is that it creates simply another version of us or a clone based upon our own, at times, very limited beliefs. And sadly, many of those beliefs are rooted in fear based illusions, manipulated as adults see the world. This is primarily due the collective years of negativity and violence we have been exposed to as humankind attempts to evolve beyond killing each other over control; or, as insane as it is, religious beliefs in the name of God.

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