Children Are from Heaven: Positive Parenting Skills for Raising Cooperative, Confident, and Compassionate Children

The downside of sharing your own negative feelings with your children is that it makes children overly responsible.

When it comes to learning a task, there are three kinds of children: runners, walkers, and jumpers. Runners learn very quickly. Walkers learn in a steady manner and give clear feedback that they are making progress. Finally, there are the jumpers. Jumpers tend to be more difficult to raise. They don’t seem to be learning anything or making any progress, and then one day they make one jump and have it. Jumpers are like late bloomers. Learning takes more time for them.

Children learn from role models not by lectures

It’s okay to be different.
It’s okay to make mistakes.
It’s okay to express negative emotions.
It’s okay to want more.
It’s okay to say no, but remember mom and dad are the bosses.

Children cannot do it alone. A child cannot grow up and develop all the skills for successful living without the help of their parents.

The struggle to get out is needed to build the wing muscles. Without the struggle, the butterfly will never fly, but will die instead

Our children’s problems begin in the home, and can be solved at home.

Besides looking to change society, parents must also realize that they hold the power to raise strong, confident, cooperative, and compassionate children.

I know they did their best with the limited knowledge they had regarding what children needed. When parents make mistakes in parenting, it is not because they don’t love their children, but because they just don’t know a better way.