I recently stumbled across these parenting suggestions in a magazine and thought they were worth sharing:
- Allow children of all ages time for free play. It's a natural way to learn regulation, social skills and cognitive skills.
- Be reasonable about what is dangerous and what is not. Some risk-taking is healthy.
- Don't overreact to every bad grade or negative encounter your child has. Sometimes discomfort is the appropriate response to a situation -- and a stimulus to self-improvement.
- Don't be too willing to slap a disease label on your child at the first sign of a problem; instead, spend some time helping your child learn how to deal with the problem.
- Peers are important, but young people also need to spend time socializing with adults in order to know how to be adults.
- Modify our expectations about child-raising in light of your child's temperament; the same actions don't work with everyone.
- Recognize that there are many paths to success. Allow your children latitude -- even to take a year off before starting college.
- Don't manipulate the academic system on behalf of your child; it makes kids guilty and doubtful of their own ability.
- Remember that the goal of child-rearing is to raise an independent adult. Encourage your children to think for themselves, to disagree (respectfully) with authority, even to incur the critical gaze of their peers.
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- Spank them once a week whether they need it or not (this may not have any short term benefit, but it provides a process of parental stress release which indirectly facilitates long term benefits for the child).
- Make them eat all their vegetables and if there is a vegetable you don't like, make them eat yours also so they learn to like these types of vegetables at a young age.
- Dress them in red and blue, so they grow up stable human beings. Above all, avoid yellow and maroon, which attract devil worshippers.
- Teach them to love temperatures that are oven hot in the summer and to hate snow in the winter (this will facilitate them desiring to live in the type of climate that our Messiah lived in which obviously leads to spirituality).
- Every night recite to them the following sentance in order to motivate them to seek and love truth - "Guapo Papo loves you."
- Teach them important phrases in a second language in order to maximise their capacities for communication with culturally diverse students when its time for them to go to pre-school. "Dos Equis porfavor." "Donde esta el bano?"
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