is one of those essential facts of life that raising happy children demands time and attention. It’s a complicated process especially when there is no magic formula to follow. Following are some guidelines to help your children grow up healthy and happy.
Show Your Love: Tell your children you love them every day. Smother them with hugs and kisses.
Listen to Your Children: When you listen to your children, it tells them they’re important and that you’re interested in what they have to say. Take them seriously and set aside time to listen.
Make Them Feel Safe: Comfort your children when they are scared. Show them you are there to protect them.
Maintain Order: Children thrive on consistency. Keep a regular schedule of meals, naps and bedtimes. Give them notice if you need to change their schedule.
Praise Your Children: Tell your children you’re proud of them when they learn something new or behave well.
Criticize the Behavior, Not the Child: Help your children learn from their mistakes. Use clear and concise language when speaking to them to teach them right from wrong. Explain to them why the behavior was wrong or inappropriate. Never tell them they are bad. Teach them that no one is perfect, not even you.
Learn to Apologize: A good parent apologizes when they are wrong. Be sure to tell your children you are sorry when you exhibit bad behavior.
Be Consistent: Be clear and consistent with rules. If two parents are raising a child, both need to use the same rules. Make sure baby sitters and relatives know, and follow, your family rules.
Spend Time with Them: Do things together, like reading, walking and playing. Sometimes this is hard in a world with so many competing demands. What children want most is your attention. Bad behavior is usually their way of getting your attention.
Take Care of Yourself: A good parent takes care of themselves as well as their children. If a parent is not mentally, physically and spiritually healthy they will not be able to take care of their children’s mental, physical and spiritual health.
Put Parenting First: A good parent is a parent first and a friend second. Children need guidance from you. They also need to learn limitations. They will make friends on their own.
Love Them Unconditionally: A good parent loves their children for who they are not who they will be. Accept them as they are.
Be Aware of What Your Children are Absorbing: Children are like sponges rapidly absorbing information. Try to control the flow of ideas and images that are influencing your child. Be aware of what they are reading, watching on the television and learning on the Internet.
Get Involved in Their School Life: Once children enter the school system, it becomes their main focal point filled with victories and disappointments. Helping them to deal, in particular, with the low points will influence the course of their lives. Encouraging them to be good students will help their self-confidence.
Attempt Family Meals: Meal time provides a much needed opportunity for the family to communicate. Ask your children what they learned today and take time to teach them about manners and rules.
Practice What You Preach: Teach your children by example. Exemplify good work habits, considerate behavior towards others, community service and self-discipline.
subota, 23. lipnja 2007.
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Getting lucky is more probable when you have a certain way of approaching situations. This particular frame of mind is the good-luck-generating attitude expressed in the following quote:
"If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness." - Les Brown
The Science Of Getting Lucky
Professor Richard Wiseman found, during his ten-year study of luck, that lucky people use many psychological strategies in order to turn bad luck into good luck. For example, they might automatically imagine how things could have been worse, so they could appreciate how things are now. This helps to eliminate any paralyzing sense of hopelessness in a bad situation, making the person more likely to act in a productive way.
These lucky individuals are also getting lucky because they concentrate on what can be done. This could certainly be more productive than the alternative of complaining about what can't be changed. How often have you seen someone getting lucky by focusing on the negative aspects of a situation?
You've probably heard the saying, "If life gives you lemons, make lemonade." It expresses the frame of mind of someone who probably has a lot of good luck. In these lucky minds, there are always motivating questions, like, "What can I do with the situation here? How could this be lucky for me? How can I make lemonade with these lemons?"
"The way we see the problem is the problem." - Stephen Covey
Getting Lucky By Seeing Problems As Opportunities
Richard Branson has a great story in his book, "Screw It, Let's Do It." It's about turning a problem into an opportunity. His wife and he were in the Virgin Islands, and their flight to Puerto Rico was canceled until the following day. There were many disappointed people, mostly sitting around not doing anything. But then, what could they do, other than wait for another flight to their destination?
Branson doesn't think this way. He located a plane, asked how much it would be to charter it one way to Puerto Rico, and was told it would be $2,000. He looked around at the people waiting and did some quick math on a scrap of paper. He found a small chalkboard and wrote on it, "Virgin Airways," and below that wrote "$39 for a one way flight to Puerto Rico."
He was making a profit by the time the 52nd person signed up. He didn't actually start his famous airline of the same name until later, but this was the inspiration. Approach it in the right way, and a problem is sometimes an opportunity. This problem helped inspire the creation of a major new airline.
Albert Einstein said that, "In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity." The likelihood of getting lucky is certainly greater when you have that mind set.
"If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness." - Les Brown
The Science Of Getting Lucky
Professor Richard Wiseman found, during his ten-year study of luck, that lucky people use many psychological strategies in order to turn bad luck into good luck. For example, they might automatically imagine how things could have been worse, so they could appreciate how things are now. This helps to eliminate any paralyzing sense of hopelessness in a bad situation, making the person more likely to act in a productive way.
These lucky individuals are also getting lucky because they concentrate on what can be done. This could certainly be more productive than the alternative of complaining about what can't be changed. How often have you seen someone getting lucky by focusing on the negative aspects of a situation?
You've probably heard the saying, "If life gives you lemons, make lemonade." It expresses the frame of mind of someone who probably has a lot of good luck. In these lucky minds, there are always motivating questions, like, "What can I do with the situation here? How could this be lucky for me? How can I make lemonade with these lemons?"
"The way we see the problem is the problem." - Stephen Covey
Getting Lucky By Seeing Problems As Opportunities
Richard Branson has a great story in his book, "Screw It, Let's Do It." It's about turning a problem into an opportunity. His wife and he were in the Virgin Islands, and their flight to Puerto Rico was canceled until the following day. There were many disappointed people, mostly sitting around not doing anything. But then, what could they do, other than wait for another flight to their destination?
Branson doesn't think this way. He located a plane, asked how much it would be to charter it one way to Puerto Rico, and was told it would be $2,000. He looked around at the people waiting and did some quick math on a scrap of paper. He found a small chalkboard and wrote on it, "Virgin Airways," and below that wrote "$39 for a one way flight to Puerto Rico."
He was making a profit by the time the 52nd person signed up. He didn't actually start his famous airline of the same name until later, but this was the inspiration. Approach it in the right way, and a problem is sometimes an opportunity. This problem helped inspire the creation of a major new airline.
Albert Einstein said that, "In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity." The likelihood of getting lucky is certainly greater when you have that mind set.
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