Parenting Children - September 24, 2012

Day 41 - Symptoms of Unhealthy Control

I. Micro-managing our children's lives
• helicopter parenting - hovering over our children
• children don't learn how to think for themselves

2. Being over-competitive for our children
• puts undue pressure on children

3. Overscheduling our children's lives
• can be caused by fear that our children will be left out or left behind

4. Overprotecting and rescuing our children
• leads to children not taking responsibility or learning from their mistakes
• allow children to take increasing responsibility for themselves
• pass on information and values to give them a moral framework to live by
• Helping children make good choices

Question:
Complete the attached worksheet.

From Series: "Parenting Children Ages 0-10"

Study Guide

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  • We need to express love to our child(ren) in all five ways
  • some expressions of love/love languages will be more important to them than others
  • as our children grow older we need to try to recognize their primary and secondary ways of feeling loved
  • pay particular attention to using their principal love languages

Which expressions of love do you think make the most difference to your children?  Which of the five do you find most difficult to give? What would help you show love in this way?

 

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