Parenting Children - September 23, 2012

Day 40 - Encouraging Responsibility

Parenting Children Ages 0-10

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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3. Model how to resolve conflict well

  • allow your children to see you, as adults, resolving conflict and making up
  • when we make mistakes as parents, we must say sorry to our children
  • when they make mistakes, we must forgive
  • don’t allow hurt and buried anger to fester

How could you give your child(ren) a good model for resolving conflict?

 

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