2006-06-14 23:31:27 · 15 answers · asked by rachel_waves 4 in Family & Relationships ➔ Family
Be consistent with both love and discipline.
2006-06-15 00:53:08 · answer #1 · answered by Mande 2 · 12⤊ 4⤋
My best parenting tip? As soon as possible, once you've become pregnant, once you've had your child - whenever, ASAP you and your partner should go to separate psychologists. Get your **** sorted out. Find out whether you're holding back anything from when you were a child and how you were brought up. Get it sorted out, you don't want to start taking out hidden tendencies from your own childhood onto your children - you don't want to do to them what your own parents may have done to you. Once you've sorted out whether you have issues or not and have had them professionally dealt with, then go to some couples therapy with your partner and decide with your psychologist how you and your partner see yourselves acting in certain parenting situations, and see if you see things about a family and the day-to-day running of being a parent and bringing up a child in the same way or if you see things and would react to things differently. Like if one of you were hit as a child for being naughty and now as an adult think it's right to do so for your own children, but your partner is strictly against it, but you don't know because you've never really thought to bring it up before, then these are things that you should get sorted out before you clash on these issues whenever the event comes up with your child. You want to sort these things out so that the child is never exposed to any harmful thing that you might bring to the situation. Go to a psychologist, attend to your own demons - don't learn of them through how you deal with your children over the years. Deal with them now - don't let your children inherit them from how they're dealt with as a child. Children learn how to interpret and interact with the world largely through modelling those around them - which means their mother and father are the most solid influences on them. Be careful of what you expose them to.
2006-06-15 06:55:02 · answer #2 · answered by mischief 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being a child of strict parents, I would definitely say give them some freedom because they might grow up to be rebellious (I'm not haah but i have friends who are).
You rather give them a loving and caring environment where they can trust you than a restricted enivornment where they wont know who to go to :(
xoxo
2006-06-15 07:14:58 · answer #3 · answered by Puja N 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Be open minded...I'm not a parent. I've been a child for 27 years, of absolutely great parents.
2006-06-15 06:36:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look at your child like if it was his or hers last..So
Love them...unconditionally..
parent of three
2006-06-15 06:36:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
to be there for them through the good & bad times because one day they will choose your nursing home lol
2006-06-15 06:39:10 · answer #6 · answered by cowboys4lee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Plenty of love.
2006-06-15 06:35:38 · answer #7 · answered by Jim C 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love your children for the precious gift they are.
2006-06-15 06:35:21 · answer #8 · answered by wooly2223 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
give them your love. They are a part of your body and soul.
2006-06-15 06:40:20 · answer #9 · answered by manalonedubai 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
love them
2006-06-15 06:36:01 · answer #10 · answered by m37734 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Listen to your kids, no matter how insignificant you think it is....to them its a huge deal. Always listen, and they'll always talk.
2006-06-15 06:35:48 · answer #11 · answered by well_hell_is_this_name_taken 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋