Start with the Right Attitude

After helping hundreds of people for over a decade as a psychotherapist, lecturer and writer, I believe three rules are essential to making parenting easier. Keep these concepts in mind as you read the following Parenting Made Easy^TM tips:

Roberta Roth,CSW

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1. Don’t parent when you are stressed. Parents need to recognize their own stress level and have a willingness to reduce it before they attempt to parent their children. When you are overly anxious, your children will feel that stress and reflect it in their own negative behavior. Stress management techniques are essential for all parents in today’s busy world. Find a technique that works for you and use it before you interact with your children.
2. Find parenting strategies that are practical, concrete and easy for you to understand and implement. Many of my clients have told me that they read lots of parenting books and still don’t know what to do-the books are too complicated and recommend too many strategies at the same time. You need to find parenting techniques that really work for your family on a daily basis. Real-world parents need Cliff’s Notes, not encyclopedias! Use what works.

3. Be positive. Many families get caught in patterns of negativity, conflict and punishment. By consciously breaking these unproductive patterns and replacing them with positive parenting techniques, family dynamics will improve tremendously.

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