5 Simple Parenting Strategies that Work
Being a parent, it’s a very difficult job to grow your kids. During kids’ nurturing, most of the parents have a fear that they are unprepared for this most important and difficult job. For effective parenting, the most important thing is the deep knowledge and understanding about parenting strategies.
Positive discipline, love and trust are very important for your kids’ physical, mental and emotional growth. You have to adopt some parenting strategies that create healthy environment for you and your kids.
Here are some kids’ raising parenting strategies that will help a lot during kids’ parenting process:
Effective parenting strategies
Following parenting strategies are very helpful to nurture your child:
Boost your child’s self-confidence
In parenting strategies, one of the most dominant strategies is “try to boost your child’s self-confidence”.
But, “How can we boost self-esteem?”
When kids start developing their sense, they firstly copy their parents. They look, judge and apply those things in their personality which they learn from the parents. If you as parent are more self-confident, ultimately, your kids follow you and develop this prominent skill of self-esteem.
As a nurturer of kids, you use those words, tone and behavior that boost your kids. Try to use polite language. If your kids do some good and creative activities, then appreciate them in such a way that their moral is enhanced.
Set limited boundaries
There are no proper rules for household activities. As parent, you can set some boundaries for your kids. Among all parenting strategy, this strategy of setting limited boundaries can help you in developing self-discipline in your kids.
When your child is wasting their time in video games and you say them “do not waste your time in fool activities”; next time during wasting her time, she will think about your advice. After some time, she will follow your instructions.
Limited boundaries are the most beneficial parenting strategy. These keep your kids in a safe zone. But, keep in mind one thing that set some limits; not complete curfew. Complete curfew can damage your kids physically and mentally.
Ignore child’s minor mistakes
In childhood, mistakes are common. If you feel that mistakes or misbehavior that your kids commit are minor then try to ignore it. When as a parent, you follow this parenting strategy of ignoring mistakes your child is less afraid from you and more frank with you.
But, don’t forget the limit of mistakes. Ignore those mistakes that are not dangerous in current condition or even in future.
Prior discipline over punishment
In parenting strategies, discipline and punishment are two different terms that are often confused the parents in parenting process. Most of the parents treat children strictly by slapping, yelling and even biting them on their minor mistakes and misbehavior. This may cause physical damage of the children. Punishment also makes children more aggressive and rebellion which result in disobedience.
For effective parenting, discipline is a long term process but you as a parent should prefer this parenting strategy. In parenting strategies, when you prefer this strategy, it will make your child more confident.
Teach child life-disciplines that how to deal and behave with people and how to survive socially. When children commit any mistake, make them sure about the loss and consequences rather than punishment. You should try to avoid physical punishment because it is a negative form of discipline and negativity always brings disaster.
Spend time with kids
Spending quality of time with your child makes the way of interaction smooth interaction with child. Be frank and available to your child as much as possible. In this way, child feels frank environment with you when she shares problems with you. She will not hesitate while talking with you.
Unluckily, most of the parents do not have time for their children due to their busy routine. But you as a parent try to spend as much as you can.
Writer: Muhammad Nadeem
