Parenting Children - September 23, 2012

Day 40 - Encouraging Responsibility

Training our children for healthy independence
• we don't own our children
• we are helping our children move from parental control to self-control
• letting them go can be hard for parents
• a gradual process over eighteen years
• allow them to make their own decisions and learn from their own mistakes
• unhealthy control can be caused by wanting to look good, fear of failure, stress, or perfectionism

Question:
How can you allow your children to learn from their mistakes while still protecting them sufficiently?

From Series: "Parenting Children Ages 0-10"

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  • bedtime

–          important that children get enough sleep (see table attached)

–          bath time. story time, prayer time

–          provides natural opportunities to talk to and pass on our values to our children

–          sets in place channels of communication on every IeveI

  • emotional
  • physical
  • spiritual

Do your children get enough sleep?  Why?  What changes to routine might help?

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