Do You Show Your Love to Your Child?
February 23, 2012 | Posted in Parenting/Child Development, Reflection/Real Stories & Personalities | Post a comment | Share Article |
Show-and-Tell in various forms is a popular feature of many preschool classrooms. When you watch children making their presentation, you understand the popularity of show-and-tell. Kids love to talk about their interests and passions, but they love to share those interests and passions even more.Kids are all about show. As a parent you know this. We have to demonstrate and lead our children by the hand through every lesson - both big and small.
So why do we so often think it is enough to simply tell our children that we love them? It isn't enough. Love is the biggest show-and-tell of them all and you need to make it a part of your every day life.
Parents are constantly being bombarded with the latest advice about parenting and they receive tips from experts or other parents. This is because giving parenting advice is "easy" since everyone has some sort of experience on the subject. There are new parent tips, survival guides and dos and don'ts lists that are being given to parents every single day - whether they ask for it or not!
At some point, your children will begin to recognize the hypocrisy in your life. And the truth is we all are hypocrites to some degree or another. Most people will admit that they believe in their hearts that something is wrong, yet haven't found the character or desire to stop doing it themselves.
Setting rules for your children is a fundamental part of discipline. Honestly, you have no right to discipline, or punish a child for doing something that you never made clear was wrong. That's just not fair.
If your child is approaching the age of two, your life is about to change dramatically. I know, your life already has changed dramatically, but you're about to enter a whole new level of, well, frustration and despair. Luckily, the difficulties only last for about two years! Sigh. Well, to help you out, let me give you some tips about living with your two-year-old.
A mini diary of a typical day in the life of a mother and her young children. You might be able to identify with some, if not many, of the events recorded.
Being a parent is not something that you clock in and do only during your waking hours. It is much more of the person you are; day in and day out. Not only does it take over your waking hours, but permeates your sleeping hours as well.
It was only a couple of weeks ago that we were wishing family and friends, “Happy New Year!” We made New Year resolutions and hope for all to go better than the year before. Soon we will be celebrating the arrival of the “Year of the Dragon” and everywhere we go, we will see and hear, “Gong Xi Fa Chai!” Perhaps for some of us, 23 Feb 2012 is another opportunity to “start again” – to launch the year with revised resolutions!
Not long ago "bringing home the bacon" was the father's role, but now working mothers are bringing home the bacon, too. Today, 50% of the mothers in our country (with children living at home) are working full time and most experience the stress of trying to balance it all especially when it comes to parenting. Sound familiar?
