5 Steps To Positive Parenting

I agree parenting is not so easy job but I too believe it so rewarding and enjoyable. I always say that parenting is a journey without any route map. So it depends upon the parents and child how smoothly they travel and enjoy the journey. And to get the pleasure of parenthood we must take some much needed steps to positive parenting. No, don’t overthink about the steps, they are the simple ones, just we need to keep something in our mind while dealing with our little ones. A parent is responsible for a child’s better growth and peaceful life. Let’s give them a positive attitude towards life by positive parenting.

What Is Positive Parenting ?

Positive parenting signifies the healthy relationship between a parent and a child. This refers to parents positive involvement in their child’s life. A parent’s love, concern, care, attention towards a child during their good and bad times. A child may not aware of the cause behind their misbehavior, that is the moment when parent should be patiently deal with their child. It is indeed difficult to stay calm all the time specially kids raise the temperature around your home. But practice makes a man perfect and nothing is impossible. I am sure no parents want to be named as yelling parent. So read the list of steps to positive parenting that will surely cool down the temperature in your home.

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5 Steps To Positive Parenting

Get to know the cause of the behavior

This is the most common mistake a parent does during the heat of the moment, they react without knowing the root cause of their child’s behavior. It often happens in every house that certain dishes or dresses that a child loves suddenly deny to eat or wear that. And they start throwing tantrums. So parents start yelling at them due to their attitude. Parents and children both get upset and nothing goes right.

No parents want to shout or intentionally make their kids upset. It is very important to learn how to deal during these tough times. Because kids learn what we do not what we say. So they will grow up seeing the violence and negativity around them. It will highly impact on their positive growth and development. So next time when your kids shows tantrums try to find the reason behind them. May be they are hungry, sad, tired or they want your attention badly.

Set Realistic Expectations

All children are individual and so their personalities are different from each other. A child grows according to their own pace. A parent or teacher can train them, teach them or guide them but the child will grab according to their capabilities. So don’t set any high expectations for your child. Let them grow according to their strength. Sun and moon never shine together, so each child will have their own time to shine. Just support them during their each milestones. This will make a child feel secured rather than being pressurized by their parents to achieve something for their parent’s wish. Let them enjoy their childhood without having the fear of being failure. This will boost confidence among children.

Rewarding Should Not Be Bribing

How many times it happens that you offer ice-cream to your child to finish dinner? Of course, it happened right? But this is not reward it is bribing your child to finish the dinner. The child never get to learn the importance of having healthy meal. They only know if they any how manage to finish the meal they will get their favorite dessert. So this approach need to be change slightly. Giving reward is not at all bad but it should not be a bribe. Let them achieve something, be a little milestone like learning to eat by themselves, then reward them. It will teach them the value of the act for which they earned the reward.

Set A Routine, Be Consistent

To be disciplined in life it is very necessary to be in a routine and maintain consistency in life. Kids are not that much matured to understand all these principles of life. So it is the responsibility of parents to nurture and instill good habits among their children. The key step towards positive parenting is to set a routine for your child and be consistent to it. To teach discipline to your child first we have to set an example before them, hence you need to lead a disciplined life too.

If you want to teach your child to brush teeth twice a day, you have to do that also, so that they will follow. And you have to do that consistently otherwise they will also loose interest to make it their habit. We should always keep it in mind that inspiring our children to live a routine life doesn’t mean we are depriving fun from their life. Also it is not like giving punishment to them. Teaching our children to maintain a routine helps them in a long run. They learn to maintain balance in life.

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Take Care Of Yourself

In this race of parenthood, many times we forget ourselves. We make ourselves so exhausted that we feel lack of interest in anything. And this affects our parenting and so on our children. It is very essential to love and take care of yourself. Then only you can be happy and enjoy each moment of life. And your positivity will reflect on your children too. There are thick and thin moments in everyone’s life but when you work as a team there will be your children and your partner to cheer up. So take some time to love yourself and love within you will pass to your children. They too will learn to love life and the people around them.

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Final Thoughts

A parent knows their child best. A child grew up in positive parenting are less likely to suffer from depression in their life. They learn to handle all the good and bad moments of life. They know well to enjoy the little moments of life. So a little effort of a parent to take few steps to positive parenting can motivate a child to do their best in life.

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