Parenting Children - September 23, 2012

Day 40 - Encouraging Responsibility

Training our children for healthy independence
• we don't own our children
• we are helping our children move from parental control to self-control
• letting them go can be hard for parents
• a gradual process over eighteen years
• allow them to make their own decisions and learn from their own mistakes
• unhealthy control can be caused by wanting to look good, fear of failure, stress, or perfectionism

Question:
How can you allow your children to learn from their mistakes while still protecting them sufficiently?

From Series: "Parenting Children Ages 0-10"

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  • normal toddler behavior between twenty months and four years old
  • you are not a bad parent
  • remember HALT
  • think ahead – distractions, choices, routines

When faced with full-blown tantrum

  • assume impassive face and body language
  • if in public, stay close or hold with firm hug till anger subsides
  • once over don’t show too much relief

For you, what will be hardest about reacting to a tantrum in this way?  Why?

 

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