Parenting

Here are a few things I learnt recently about Parenting!

Tips for Motivating Your Child

1. Allow Your child to fail.
2. Give your child regular chores.
3. Limit what you give to your child.
4. Teach and model respect for people and property.
5. Build into your child the habit of completion. [How do we help kids finish more things? Start fewer things—do more my doing less.]
6. Limit and monitor exposure to media [TV leads to irritability and non-motivation]
7. Model virtues over conformity.
8. Hold your child personally accountable.
9. Work together (service projects) [Helps them not become “gimme” pigs.]
10. Play together

Tim Smith, The Relaxed Parent, p. 18

S E V E N Ways to Impact Your Child’s Faith

1. Model a growing and personal faith. [If they don’t see it, they won’t catch it.]
2. Include faith in normal conversations.
3. Be well-rounded. [Don’t compartmentalize your faith.]
4. Be authentic.
5. Serve together
6. Pray for your children and with them.
7. Learn and communicate love in their language.
   

The Relaxed Parent by Tim Smith

The Five Love Languages of Children

1. Words of Affirmation
2. Quality Time
3. Receiving Gifts
4. Acts of Service
5. Physical Touch

“The Five Love Languages of Children” by Dr. Gary Chapman and Dr. Ross Campbell, quoted in The Relaxed Parent by Tim Smith, p. 23