Parenting Facts

On this page you will find many summaries on the parenting facts that hold true across any age or gender of your child. Click on any of the links within each summary to go to a more in-depth article on that topic.

Parenting Fact 1
Parenting is continual process of learning and adjusting to the individual needs of each child it is not a one size fits all approach. At each stage of your children’s development they have limitations on what they can do, on what they are learning to do and what they have already mastered.
Baby Development of the 0-2 year old is centered on understanding the world from what they can see, feel, touch, hear and smell. In other words babies and toddlers use their sense to perceive the world around them.

Parenting Fact 2
The role of parents is to guide, educate and provide love, support and respect to our children to help them grown up to be responsible, happy and well adjusted adults.

If we adopt a parenting style that is too dominating or too passive we can and often do limit our children’s ability to reach their full potential. A more balanced parenting approach is best. An approach were the children are shown love and affection and with the parents providing strong guidelines for the children to follow. This style of parenting is often referred to as authoritative parenting

Parenting Fact 3
One of the most powerful ways our children learn how to behave and act is by copying and mimicking the behaviours, attitudes and values of significant others in their lives. So if you want your children to act in a certain way, lets say with respect for others, than you must first model the appropriate behaviour of respecting others. This notion is called behaviour modeling

Parenting Truth 4
A Parenting Guide is one way to keep yourself focused on what you want to achieve as parents. Remember when you first laid eyes on your beautiful newborn, how perfect she or he was, the dreams that you had for her or him and for yourself as a parent.

Having a plan for what you want to achieve, what values and beliefs you want to instill in your children and what sort of relationship you want to develop with your children, helps you stay focus and on track. Without a plan it is easy to get caught up in the busy daily routines of parenting and forget the bigger picture. It is easy to forget your dreams of what kind of parent you wanted to be when you first laid eyes on your precious newborn. Take a look at the Parenting Guide article and then follow the link to the practical Parenting Guide Example

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