37 Keys to Parenting Success, Without Stress
Bob Lancer
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Simple Guidelines to Make Everyday Parenting Success Easier
1. Your child is not responsible for how you react. Your stressful, angry reactions represent ways that you behave, and those ways do not work. you can parent far more effectively and enjoyably by demonstrating calm and loving self-control.2. Improving your response to your child's behavior begins with taking total responsibility for your responses.
3. Focus on your own behavior to see the ways that you contribute to the outcomes that you do not want.
4. Begin addressing any unbalance in your life. To parent with more peace, poise and loving effectiveness, you need to eat well, exercise enough, practice some form of meditative centering or conscious relaxation, do enough of what you love to keep your morale high, and practice doing what must be done in a calm, confident, pleasant manner.
5. To remove the anger and stress from your reactions to your child's behavior, practice handling every aspect of your day without rush. The more you rush the faster you drive yourself crazy.
6. Children have two speeds when it comes to doing what you want: slow and stop. If you push them to go faster they go in reverse.
7. A calm child behaves better than a stressed out child. Your state radiates. The more calmly you interact with your child, the calmer your child will be.
8. You cannot instill better self-control in a child while you are losing yours.
9. Taking charge in your relationship with child begins with taking charge of yourself.
10. When a child can make you react, the child is in charge. Gaining control in any situation starts with controlling your reaction to the situation.
11. Watch what you tell your child. Saying things like, "You make me angry. You move too slowly. You force me to yell." Gives your child and your own subconscious that the child is in charge and responsible for how you behave.
12. God sends a challenging child into your life when it is time for you to grow.
13. When you lose your peace and poise in response to your child's behavior, you lose your power.
14. Practice handling EVERYTHING with peace and poise. From peace you can connect with your deeper wisdom and love to guide you in your parenting.