8 Excellent Ways To Be A Good Parent To Your Child
What makes a good parent? This is not a trick question
, but just some food for thought.Parenting is a difficult and expensive task. Yet, parenting is the most joyous and rewarding part of life, in most cases.
To be responsible for the future of an individual is challenging. Teaching high self-esteem and self confidence to our children does not go unfulfilled.
I have 8 suggestions on how a person can be a good parent:
1. I well remember reading to my children on a regular basis. They loved getting books and reading them to each other or at bedtime before the lights went out.
Books are full of adventure and excitement, not to mention educational and great practice of a child's reading skills.
Closeout books are a wonderful way to add to your child's "library".
Internet sites have a huge selection of childrens storybooks at low prices.
2. Your children are growing. You need a 'safe' place for them to play. How about our own backyards?
Just consider how much it costs to take our children to commercial play areas (you know the kind... with inflatables and monkey bars and game machines).
Add in our time (time is money) and the gas to drive them there; how much can we save by having our own backyard playground? It will pay for itself over time.
The Internet if full of places to buy a backyard playground, or build one from a set of plans. One week-end will have your children squealing with delight.
So, investing in time and a little cash will create a safe and fun place for your children to play. This is good parenting.
3. Surround your child with positive influences. Pick out a few optimistic people for your children to associate with. Rubbing shoulders with those you want your child to emulate will reap wonders.
4. How much does your child know about money? Sure, we say to them, "I cannot afford to buy you this", but how much do they really understand about the value of money?
We can actually teach our children how to be debt-proof for life; even if we did not do it for ourselves.
Retrospection is always 100%.
Every loving parent naturally and understandably wants better things for their child than they had for themselves. They want their child or children to be able to succeed in life and become financially independent.
Handling money is a subject not taught in school.
Searching the Internet, I found a site that teaches children about money. I think it's something every parent ought to consider.
Type into a search engine, "Teaching children about money" and see if it has value to you.
5. Ok... it is birthday time and our kids want a party, right? Of course, they do.
A neighbor down the street has birthday parties for their children where they rent bouncing inflatable entertainment or hire clowns or magicians.
Costs money, right? Time after time, child after child, year after year.
Put together awesome parties for your kids with a simple childrens party planning guide, making memories that will last forever.
Crafts, projects, ideas, themes...this will keep their guests happy, too! Cheap price for priceless memories. Look for party guides on the Internet.
6. I know we did it, so you probably do, too.
You take your child to a professional portrait studio to get a professional portrait to put in your albums, send to the grandparents, or have placed on a Christmas card, right?
Learn how to take professional portraits yourself.
Just think of how much money we can save by not having to buy the packages after viewing the proofs. Oh, they're all so cute and we can't afford them all or they come out terrible and we've wasted our time and our child's patience.
With a video and audio tutorial, you can learn how to take your kid's portraits all the way through graduation from college.
Believe me, my granddaughter recently asked me to take her senior high school picture so she could choose the setting and the poise.
What a joy to know how to take great looking professional photos and save a bundle of money.
Just maybe your kids don't like their photos because they're overweight. That's a major problem in American society today.
7. Fast food has taken both money out of our pockets and taken nutrition out of our kids' lifeline.
So what to do? Prepare the dinner yourself. After all, we are talking about the health of your children.
Feed your children nutritional food, not junk. Do not let your kids come into the kitchen to indulge themselves with junk food.
Save money by not buying snacks that have high caloric content.
Get a grip on obesity and save money at the grocery store.
Get kids to exercise. I know when I exercise, the thought of filling myself with heavy food is not even there.
Water is a filler-upper and exercise will make our children desire less heavy food and more water-based foods like fruit and vegetables... even if they're not in the habit of eating them now.
When I was a child (and probably you, too) kids played outdoors... running, biking, skating, etc. until dark. Times have changed but the need for exercise has not.
Look into youth fitness programs and prevent the "money pit" of down-the-road remedies, diets, therapy and medications that are sure to come your way.
8. Monitor your child's Internet activities. Did you know that 90% of kids today, aged 8 -16, have viewed pornography on the Internet?
Today we have Internet safety to be addressed. Imagine the anguish we could face and the time and money required to untangle a situation caused by an Internet predator.
There's an old saying, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure". This statement is gold when it comes to what your child could be exposed to on the web.
So in summary, you can be a good parent by following the steps listed below:
(1) Read to children
(2) Provide a safe play area
(3) Feed them positive affirmations
(4) Teach them about finances
(5) Make them laugh
(6) Give them photographic memories
(7) Keep them healthy and fit
(8) Protect them from predators.
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