The Essential Parenting Advices (Part 2)

The introduction to essential parenting advices can be found here and now we will continue the next point or rule of good parenting.

Deciding what kind of parenting style you will use requires good consideration based on children’s age. Try to adapt with child’s development. In each development, the behavior will be different from other stages, thus you need to use different method too.

Children who are more than 10 years old would be more irritable. They are also argumentative, and it happens especially when they have problem with school grades. This situation requires parents to be aware. Instead of pushing the child more, it will be better to understand the condition thus the child will not have any problem with their self-esteem.

Parents need to be aware when children showing unusual behavior because there are times when they experience bad things and those then affect their emotion. They are probably getting too little sleep, feeling difficult to stay organized and so on. What parents must do is to help structuring time for studying, listen to their problems and find the help from professionals when parents feel that they can handle such condition alone.

Good parenting also requires some rules. Parents must set the rules and this will be truly useful for both parents and children. Managing children’s behavior when they are still young will be much better than letting them learning to manage everything themselves when they are older. When everything is too late, it will be even worse especially when parents are not around.

However, please keep in mind that parents will have limitation on it. Managing the child does not mean that you will always manage the whole thing. It means, when they are growing older and are in middle school, for example, parents do not have the responsibility to do children’s homework to let everything done. Children need to do the homework themselves, learn to make some choices and so on.

Do you have any other suggestions and experiences? We will be really happy to read your stories, for sure!