Parenting Tips

20 Things Every Parent Should Know…………

1. To avoid labels. They are much better suited to cans and bottles.

2. That your children use your attitude towards them as a criterion to determine their own personality and value.

3. That encouragement is like oxygen for the heart.

4. How to enthusiastically celebrate the slightest sign of progress with your child.

5. That problems a child experiences may seem insignificant but could be overwhelming to him.

6. That children imitate heroes, but they are really looking for role models.

7. That love is a verb (a doing word).

8. How to say ‘I love you’ in twenty different ways.

9. That discipline and corporal punishment are not the same thing.

10. How to help your child understand the consequences of his action and behaviour.

11. That a child who misbehaves is very often a discouraged child.

12. That raising a child with character is more important than a mantelpiece of trophies.

13. That children who have everything, appreciate nothing.

14. That God used David to defeat Goliath while he was still a teenager.

15. How to talk frankly and honestly about sexuality.

16. How important it is to be able to laugh.

17. That approximately 20,000 implied sexual acts are shown on television every year and that almost all of those are extramarital.

18. That each child is a unique one-off creation of God.

19. That children hate sitting still.

20. How to calm down before reacting.

“Taken from ‘365 things that every parent should know’ Solly Ozrovech”