Are you the sort of parent who stops doing everything at the first sound of your baby? Are you the kind of parent that may help your kid with anything they are doing? Are you the type of mom that plays with your children when they have mates over? The type that wears her zwangerschapslingerie months after it's obsolete?
If the answer's yes to those questions you could be doing more harm than help. In the neverending quest of getting lauded as 'parent of the year ' (an award that doesn't exist by the way) some folks have a tendency to forget what is actually best for their kid. Do you really think that standing next to your kid every time they climb a chair will help them? That warning them for everything that would go screwy will benefit them?
I'm no spiritual man by a long stretch but one special part of the bible has always stuck with me. Give a hungry man a fish and he is going to ask for more, give a hungry man a rod and he'll feed his family.
The same applies to parenting. Let your children make mistakes, let them tumble of chairs, let them bump their heads and let them touch hot water. They key thing is to let them do it in a managed environment with you standing guard close by, just don't warn them! Trial - error is the methods by which children have learned for years. Yet somehow there is a belief growing among modern parents that their children are made from paper. Let your kid go out and play, let him climb trees. If he makes a mistake on his very own they will learn from it a 100 times better and faster than you continually preventing and telling him what he should do.
You do your kid a massive favour this way. It'll grow his self worth and make him self adequate. You don't wish to be one of those elders who has their kid of 30 living on the top floor do you?!?
If the answer's yes to those questions you could be doing more harm than help. In the neverending quest of getting lauded as 'parent of the year ' (an award that doesn't exist by the way) some folks have a tendency to forget what is actually best for their kid. Do you really think that standing next to your kid every time they climb a chair will help them? That warning them for everything that would go screwy will benefit them?
I'm no spiritual man by a long stretch but one special part of the bible has always stuck with me. Give a hungry man a fish and he is going to ask for more, give a hungry man a rod and he'll feed his family.
The same applies to parenting. Let your children make mistakes, let them tumble of chairs, let them bump their heads and let them touch hot water. They key thing is to let them do it in a managed environment with you standing guard close by, just don't warn them! Trial - error is the methods by which children have learned for years. Yet somehow there is a belief growing among modern parents that their children are made from paper. Let your kid go out and play, let him climb trees. If he makes a mistake on his very own they will learn from it a 100 times better and faster than you continually preventing and telling him what he should do.
You do your kid a massive favour this way. It'll grow his self worth and make him self adequate. You don't wish to be one of those elders who has their kid of 30 living on the top floor do you?!?
About the Author:
Salmsed Turns is a dutch writer with a particular loveof baby related subjects. This is thanks to the incontrovertible fact that he has just become father of a sweet girl. Sick and tired of all
of the kraamcadeaus he found an outlet
for that in his writing. Other subjects he likes are (in Dutch) : Zwangerschapslingerie en Luiertassen .
of the kraamcadeaus he found an outlet
for that in his writing. Other subjects he likes are (in Dutch) : Zwangerschapslingerie en Luiertassen .
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