Parenting Children - August 18, 2012

Day 6 – Practicing Healthy Relationships (and Parenting Alone)

Parenting Children Ages 0-10

Practicing: sibling-sibling (and other peer relationships) Children learn to relate through practicinq with brothers, Sisters, and friends
•  how to plan together
•  how to share
•  how to handle arguments
•  how to apologize and forgive

Question:
What could you do to invest in the various relationships in your family?

From Series: "Parenting Children Ages 0-10"

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  • having a vision for our familu life
  • pausing to think about what we want to achieve
  • what will our children’s memories be of us and their home in twenty years, time?

Goals for our family life

When they are adults, will our children associate their upbringing with:

  • having fun together as a family?
  • being listened to?
  • being able to talk through difficult choices?
  • being encouraged and affirmed?
  • being valued for their unique personality and gifts?
  • knowing they are loved?
  • learning important values of honesty, generosity, etc.?
  • learning to think about others?
  • being prayed for?
  • having clear boundaries for their own protection?
  • seeing kindness modeled?

The importance of play

  • using their imagination
  • learning skills
  • playing on their own
  • playing with others
  • indoor and outdoor play
  • limiting screen time

Did you have fun with your family growing up?  When do you have the most fun together as a family now?

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