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5 Essential Steps To Take After Yelling at Your Kids
So it happened again, you yelled at your kid and now you are feeling terrible about it. No matter how hard you try you lose it every once in a while and it keeps haunting you afterwards. I can very much understand your situation as the same thing happens to me. Parents never want to yell at their kids but still every now and then there are situations where most of them do yell at their kids. Afterwards, they feel guilty for yelling. Yelling at your kid is a moment of weakness for you as a parent, but if handled well, it can become a big moment of teaching for…
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Importance of Eye Contact When Communicating With Kids
We all know that keeping eye contact in any conversation is essential. Its importance is mani folded when you are communicating with a child. Every parenting book and guide emphasizes the importance of eye contact when communicating with kids. What Message Does a Conversation without Eye Contact Give? Eye contact is a part of body language and it conveys a much deeper message. For a few second imagine a conversation without eye contact. Think about someone is talking to you without looking into your eyes, what message that conversation is giving? Most probably one of the following. The conversation is not important. You feel unimportant. Truth is not being told.…
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How To Talk To Children So That They Will Listen
Do your children drive you nuts when it comes to listening and showing compliance? Do you often wonder how to talk to them so that they will listen? Well, almost all children drive their parents crazy at one time or the other when it comes to listening. A part of this problem is due to their nature as humans. By nature, children are amazed by the environment around them and their attention shifts very quickly from one point of interest to the other. Therefore they might ignore something because they are busy exploring the world. The other part of the problem of not listening to parents is because of certain…
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How To Build One To One Relationship With Each Child
Do you remember the time when you had only one child? You knew everything about that child from their tiniest expression to the texture of their poop. Then more children come into the picture and either the first one begins to go into the background or you are unable to pay due attention to the second born. At times the demands of the busy lives of parents leave very little energy and stamina to consciously put an effort to connect with each child individually. Keeping up a healthy one to one relationship with each child becomes a bit difficult. As a parent, you might not feel much but the child…
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How to Raise Your Daughter Right
During all my childhood I lived in Murree(a hillstation in Pakistan). Because of its hilly landscape people don’t ride bicycles over there. I loved bicycling but by the time I came to a place where I could I was unable to fulfill my desire because being a girl I was too old (18 years to be precise) to ride a bicycle outside my home. It might look something very small but I hated it then. There are many such things in our culture which unnecessarily hamper girls to fulfill their dreams. . Things like these made me dislike my womanhood and the sad part is I am not the only…
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How To Raise Your Son Right
Your son is not only a son, he would be somebody’s husband and somebody’s father. If you raise your son right you will not only do service to your own family but the whole society will benefit from it. We detest many things in our present Pakistani society. The long lasting change which has the potential of changing our future society is raising our children right.Today’s children are tomorrow’s adults. If we can inculcate right values and character in our children we can guarantee a better future. I have observed many things in the brought up of our children which are negative and counterproductive. If we can all make little…
