The journey of finding my parenting style was something I wasn't prepared for. I always thought that it was be an instinct based approach. But now I realise that it takes work and it takes making a conscious decision on how to approach different situations using a parenting style that you relate to.
Some of qualities I want to foster in Paddy are:
- Empathy
- Kindness
- Compassion
- Imagination
- Creative Thinking.
Which leads me to this post over at Childhood 101. It opened up a whole new world of ideas for me. I always would have asked the first question but I love how you can turn a question around to encourage your child to use their imagination and think creatively about the answer.
Really cool idea I thought....
1 comments:
I read that post earlier this week and it reminded me of a book I read a while ago "Play to Talk". It's interesting how difficult it is to adopt that kind of automatic response to your child. It takes a LOT of work. And I am slowly learning (slowly) that in order to help Isabel learn and grow I need to do some learning and growing too.
I have recently taken up telling myself to "Suck it up and Grow Up!!"
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