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Meet Your Family Demands With Sanity

By Bob Lancer
Wednesday, April 25th, 2012

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Parenting Wisdom For Raising Children

Once you are in the thick of raising children, you realize that it may be one of the most taxing tests life delivers, and it delivers it everyday.

We plan to have a family based on the dream of family harmony.

 

But supporting a family emotionally and financially is not that easy.  The bigger the family the more directions you are pulled in at one time.

 

If you parent more than one child you know how hard it can be when both children demand your undivided attention at the same time, while the phone is ringing, dinner is cooking and your mate is trying tell you something important.  At the same you might look around at your home and see mess after mess.  And while all this is happening, you feel so deeply in need of a nap!

 

Single parents have the added challenge of having no other parent around to help out.

 

Once you are in the thick of raising children, you realize that it may be one of the most taxing tests life delivers, and it delivers it everyday.

 

Parenting Wisdom For Raising Kids

We plan to have a family based on the dream of family harmony.

A common mistake we parents make is to drive ourselves too hard.

 

There is a far more sane and simple solution to meeting your family demands.

 

The moment you feel your pressure starting to mount, instead of surging forward in attempt to get it all done, let go and lighten up!  This is both a self-help and a family help solution.

 

While one child tugs at your sleeve and the other spills juice on your foot, take an INTERNAL time out.

 

Remain still, relax your body, and calm your nerves by breathing gently, fully, calmly.

 

Stand in a juice puddle (or even the pee puddle, for that matter) and just let it all BE.  Let YOURSELF just BE.

 

You need to live in peace and poise to appreciate all the good in your life, and to avoid feeling over-burdened, depressed and chronically annoyed.

 

It is our attachment to control over externals, not the demands of others or of our environment, that really drives us into an emotional frenzy.

 

Having a family IS a gift, but you have to be at peace to enjoy it.

 

And with this joy comes your power to be a better parent, partner, worker and human being.

 

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Conscious Parenting Tips To Understand Your Child

By Bob Lancer
Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

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Spend time every day simply calmly, consciously observing your child

A child’s problematic behavior often stems from a parent misreading the child.

 

Parenting as effectively as possible produces the best child behavior results.  It requires clear and accurate recognition of our children’s present need for appropriate behavior.

 

To know what our children need from us to avoid developing a behavior problem, or to improve their behavior, we need to be very aware in the present moment.

 

Getting too caught up in our daily tasks, we may pay superficial attention to the child, causing us to overlook the child’s subtle signs of need, like a sadly drooping face or an aggressive clenching of a fist.

 

Destructive behavior that seems to come “out of the blue” could often have been prevented if the parent had paid closer attention beforehand to recognize what the child required BEFORE she began throwing a tantrum, BEFORE he began kicking the pet, BEFORE he began biting his sibling.

 

Perhaps the child’s deepest, most fundamental need is for us to demonstrate CONSCIOUS parenting.

 

Alert, conscious observation of the child in the present reveals the true self of the child.

 

And that “self” becomes the best form of guidance for parents, showing us just what this particular child needs at this particular time for great child behavior and positive child development.

 

When we fall into habitual, “mechanical” unconscious parenting, even when we are with our children we are not really there, and they sense it.

 

To gain our deeper involvement they may resort to inappropriate, or even outrageous behavior, even when they “know better”.

 

Behavior problems manifest as our parental responses mismatch the needs that our children express.

 

Conscious Parenting Tips:

 

  1. Spend time every day simply calmly, consciously observing your child.

 

  1. As you apply this parenting tip, look for your child’s subtle physical signs that express her mood, attitude, and feelings in general.

 

As you practice more CONSCIOUS parenting, you will:

  • Experience deeper and more accurate understanding of your child.
  • Be better at predicting when your child is headed toward behaving improperly.
  • More effectively meet your child’s need for great child behavior.

 

Feel welcome share in this blog your experience of applying these Conscious Parenting Tips, and any questions that you have about your child’s behavior.

 


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Motivate Your Child for Child Discipline

By Bob Lancer
Sunday, December 4th, 2011

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Encouraging Children With Positive Motivation

As parents, we need to live in positive motivation to pass on that wonderful spirit to our children

Here is a wonderful secret for how to motivate your child to display beautiful, responsible self-conduct and a great attitude WITHOUT you having to strain for child discipline.

Develop your SELF-motivation.

Self-motivation is a product of a happy way of life.

I’ve discovered with my kids that they definitely reflect the mood that I’m in.

When I become stressed, when I start to rush, when I overtax myself with multi-taxing, my positive motivation declines and my kids seem to need more child discipline from me.

But instead of pushing myself even harder to control their behavior with stern intensity, I relax, ease up on myself, and remember to ENJOY my kids instead of working too hard to control my kids.

As I do this, they need less child discipline from me.

When you feel motivated, enthused, in love with your life, you automatically motivate your child to behave beautifully, reducing your need to apply stern child discipline.

Since long before I had children I have been training myself to live in a mode that permits me to experience joy, peace, and love.

I learned that by slowing down, relaxing, paying more attention to the present moment, and remaining committed to enjoying my life, not just living my life, I feel more motivated.

I learned to listen to signals of my body.  For instance, while writing this blog I began feeling too hungry to concentrate without strain, so I paused for lunch.

While lunching, I looked out my window and noticed the sun shining, and that enticed me.  So I ate my lunch in the warm sunlight.

Honoring my feelings helps me stay motivated and, by extension, to motivate my child.

When I became a parent, I brought this wisdom into parenting.  I work on dealing with every parenting challenge with fulfillment, peace and inspiration.

Happy parenting is not necessarily irresponsible parenting.  If you commit to it, YOU can learn how to bring more joy into your handling of your child leaving a mess behind, fibbing, breaking an expensive dish.

It comes down to the quality of life you want.

Here is an exercise to live in joy,
so you can motivate your child automatically:

Take one day to concentrate on doing whatever you do
with more joy, fulfillment and satisfaction.

Take this into your parenting.  Whatever you do for or with your child, concentrate on making it an enjoyable experience for yourself.

This blog is your chance to contribute to the world’s parenting wisdom.
Please share with us, your “parent wisdom community”,
your experiences of doing this exercise.

Also share any questions you have about how to live in joy,
motivate your child and child discipline.

You CAN bring more joy, love and fulfillment into whatever must be done, if you make that a priority for yourself.

As parents, we need to live in positive motivation to pass on that wonderful spirit to our children.

To motivate your child, motivate yourself.

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The Wisdom of Charitable Parenting

By Bob Lancer
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

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Children need a certain measure of parental charitableness for the nurturing of their hearts and to inspire them to demonstrate their beautiful potential.

In conversations about parenting children, rarely do parents discuss the role of charity in parenting.

 

You might hear about a child’s accomplishments, about the trouble a child is getting into, about the need for discipline, but how often do you hear the word “charity” as it applies to parenting?

And yet, of all the parenting tips you might receive, there is none more important or valuable than why, how, and when to demonstrate CHARITABLE PARENTING.

Children need a certain measure of parental charitableness for the nurturing of their hearts and to inspire them to demonstrate their beautiful potential.

In the Wisie for kids wisdom video, ‘The Meaning of Charity’, children are taught how to be charitable, and why.  Here are two inspirational quotes from it:

  • “(Charity)… is seeing someone make a mistake and saying, ‘That’s okay’.

  • “Charity makes our world a kinder, happier place.”

Consider how this can translate into parenting tips:

  • Charitable parenting is seeing your child make a mistake and saying, “That’s okay.”

  • Charity makes OUR HOME a kinder, happier place.

A charitable approach to parenting also brings out the kind, generous attitude of charity in children through modeling.

Children do need us to establish boundaries and to express our displeasure… AT TIMES.

But they also need us to be tolerant, forgiving, and patient… to practice the spirit of charity in our parenting.

Children need to be treated with enough kindness to display enough kindness.  In what ways can you demonstrate more kindness or charity with your kids?

In what instances do honestly feel that you demonstrate too much harshness and not enough charity with your child?

In this blog, share any parenting tips, or questions, that you might have
regarding nurturing the child’s sacred heart.

All of us engaged in demanding work of parenting might benefit from viewing the Wisie video: “The Meaning of Charity”.

In any event, being more mindful of the role of kindness in parenting children can help to raise happier, kinder kids.

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Child Development VS Punishment

By Bob Lancer
Thursday, October 20th, 2011

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Punishing a child does not produce higher child development.

Parents resort to punishment to “teach the child a lesson”, but punishing children really does not teach children anything, except to fear getting caught. It also teaches them to be punishing.

Punishment is educational only in the sense that it models punishing behavior. It really does NOT solve behavior problems. It actually worsens them.

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Punishment is educational only in the sense that it models punishing behavior. It really does NOT solve behavior problems. It actually worsens them.

You do not teach your child HOW to improve his behavior by punishing.
You make him feel badly about the way that YOU behave in reaction to his behavior.

Improving a child’s behavior is about child development.

Your aim is to DEVELOP a new behavior pattern.

To develop a new behavior pattern requires modeling that behavior pattern and then guiding the child in a step-by-step manner to demonstrate and practice it.

What are your thoughts about punishing children?

Have you actually found that punishing your child has ended one of his or her behavior problems?

In this blog, share your thoughts and questions about
punishing and alternative ways of improving child behavior.

Punishing does not teach a child to feel remorse over the behavior
that you are punishing him or her for.

The child regrets only the punisher’s behavior, because that is all that hurts.

To improve your child’s behavior, think about the behavior that you want and turn that into a goal.

Then model the behavior you want, and lead the child, step-by-step in the process of engaging in that behavior.

For instance, if your child speaks disrespectfully, and you want to change that, listen more closely to the tone of your voice and the attitude you express when speaking.

Model more conscious, respectful speech.

Then, when your child speaks disrespectfully, guide her step-by-step in expressing what she wants to say in a more respectful way.

There are many more things you can do for the child development process leading to improved behavior.

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Long-Term Parenting

By Bob Lancer
Sunday, September 25th, 2011

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Parenting tips for the long term

The parent functions as a sort of lighthouse for the child, guiding the child, hopefully, along a happy, healthy, successful life-path

The parenting tips presented here pertain to the fact that your child is deeply impressed by your way of living, not just by your way of parenting.

How you live your life operates as a life-long guide for your child’s life-path.

The parent functions as a sort of lighthouse for the child, guiding the child, hopefully, along a happy, healthy, successful life-path.

Your child may be observing you far more closely than even she realizes. Your modeling as a sort of compass for her daily life choices in the short AND the long-term.

Parenting tips for the long-term:
• Pursuing the fulfillment of your higher potential leads your children to become their best selves.
• Leading a fulfilling life leads your children to lead fulfilling lives.

Here is how modeling works for the short and long term. If Junior hears you speaking belligerently to his mother, for example, he will soon be heard speaking that way to his mother.

There is a good chance that he will speak that way to his female teacher.

There’s a good chance he will speak that way to his wife.

As parents we are responsible for the ways that we influence our child’s life path.

You may find help with parenting that relates to the long term by thinking of yourself casting a sort of beacon that your child will follow all life-long.

What are some of the positive and negative traits
you are modeling for your child?

What problems and what success do you feel that you were led (or misled) into by your parents’ modeling?

Share your thoughts and questions about this
important topic in this blog.

Take-Away parenting tips:
• Remember that the life you lead leads your child throughout life.
• Remember that your example is an extremely powerful influence on your child’s destiny.

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Protect Your Child’s Imagination

By Bob Lancer
Wednesday, September 7th, 2011

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Powerful imagination is part of healthy child development

Understanding how to work with your child’s power of imagination is important for supporting child development

Understanding how to work with your child’s power of imagination is important for supporting child development.

When children begin “making things up” it’s easy for a parent to become anxious about the need for the child to “tell the truth”.

Out of fear, the parent may over-react to the child’s made up tales and squelch the positive use and development of the child’s imagination-power.

Children seem to have an instinctive knowledge of how to use fantasy for their own good.

For instance, to protect herself from being emotionally devastated, the 5 year old son of a deceased father told his friend that his father was actually alive, but on a secret mission for the Army.

A child who was the smallest in his class told his parents one day, “Today I was bigger than Amos (the tallest in the class).

In these cases we see a wise application of the imaginative stage of child development. The child is using his new power to help himself to feel good about his life and about himself, and the child needs to feel good to behave well and perform successfully.

Do you regard the examples of making things up as behavior problems?

How does YOUR child use the power of fantasy?

Share your thoughts, experiences and questions about children’s use of imagination this blog.

Children need a strong imagination to help them to cushion the blows of harsh realities, for problem-solving, and to create magnificent goals for themselves. The child who makes things up may be revealing a gift for story-telling that is just beginning to blossom.

So we need to teach children when and how to tell the truth, but avoid giving them the harmful message that making things up is always wrong. A powerful imagination is part of healthy child development.

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Raising Appreciative Children

By Bob Lancer
Thursday, September 1st, 2011

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This blog presents advice for parents that relates to teaching children to appreciate their lives.

Children seem “hard-wired” for impatience. It is so common for a child to say, “I can’t wait for…”.

Instead of appreciating every sacred moment of childhood, the child wants to skip over his or her life so it can already be time to go to the circus or sleep over a friend’s house.

Advice for parents for teaching appreciation

Part of teaching children to appreciate their lives has to do with their possessions


Part of teaching children to appreciate their lives has to do with their possessions. Kids often want something new just because the see it on a shelf, but as soon as they have it, they could care less about.

I recall taking my son into a toy store once on a trip to New York City. He wanted a yoyo. He begged and begged for it. Finally I bought it for him. As we were walking out of the store he saw a pigeon, dropped the yoyo on the ground, and ran toward the pigeon. The yoyo ceased to matter the moment after it was his.

Does your child seem to feel a lack of appreciation for life or for his or her possessions? How do you typically deal with this?

Do you have ideas or advice for parents on how to teach their children to be more appreciative?

Share your thoughts and questions about teaching children
about appreciation in this blog.

Sometimes a lack of appreciation turns into children behavior problems. For instance when a child shows no gratitude for a gift he receives. In a more serious way, reckless teens show a lack of appreciation for life when they risk life and limb in foolhardy antics.

So here is the advice for parents for teaching appreciation: Regardless of how your child behaves, and even when you need to be firm, demonstrate your deep, sincere appreciation for your child’s sacred presence. This models appreciation in a profound way.

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Teaching Children Persistence

By Bob Lancer
Thursday, September 1st, 2011

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Help your child realize how patient persistence pays off

Teaching persistence is one of the most valuable life-lessons you can pass on as a parent. Children who learn about this great power early in life have a “ticket” to life-success.

There are many ways to impart this great lesson to children. But it is rarely learned by merely talking about it.

One aspect of persistence has to do with breaking down tasks into small, achievable steps for the child.

When your four year old struggles to tie her shoes, for instance, try to intervene BEFORE she becomes very frustrated. (Your timing is important because when a child is frustrated the child is really not teachable).

Then, help the child handle smaller steps. You might first have her hold her laces. Praise her for this. Then you might show her how to cross the laces. Praise her again for getting this. For learning, maintaining calm harmony between parent and children is essential.

Does your child become frustrated quickly?

How do you respond to his or her frustration?

Share your thoughts and questions about teaching persistence in this blog.

You can apply this “chunk-down” method to any task, including homework and school projects, to help your child realize how patient persistence pays off.

Here are two brief “mother poems” about imparting lessons from parent to children.

Parenting children for healthy child development

Help the child handle smaller steps

1.
“My love for you teaches you to love.
What I say is what you will speak of.
I know you learn from what I do
And so I strive to model the best for you.”

2.
“I want you to believe in YOU,
Because to learn and improve you MUST.
So I show appreciation for the best you can do.
And I’m careful not to criticize too much.”

Of course one of the best ways to teach persistence as a parent, for your children, is to model it in your ongoing effort to develop your parenting skills.

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Your Magical Child

By Bob Lancer
Monday, August 29th, 2011

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Help for parents is usually focused on practical matters.

We want our kids to be practical, responsible, grounded. We want them to be reasonable.

Help for parents for child development

Children believe there is nothing wonderful that they can imagine doing that they cannot in fact accomplish

But don’t we also want them to preserve their MAGIC?

After all, it is possible to be TOO practical.

In a sense, being too practical is really not being practical. Being TOO practical can cost you your optimism and prevent you from taking risks that you really ought to take. Help for parents needs to include how to relate with the child’s delicate quality of enchantment.

Children start out believing in magic. They believe that anything is possible. They believe there is nothing wonderful that they can imagine doing that they cannot in fact accomplish.

Tips for parent need to include preserving the magic of believing that anything wonderful is possible.

We need to believe in this magic. For life really is quite magical. The very fact of existence itself is really unfathomable. The most elaborate scientific theory only goes so far and always leaves us at the brink of mystery.

What are your thoughts about preserving the magical quality of a child’s spirit?

Do you believe that magic can actually help your child succeed?

What is magical about your child that you want to preserve?

Please share your child’s magic and your thoughts about this topic in this blog.

Here is some magical help for parents:
Envision your child as a sacred blessing, a winner, a wonderful human being. The magical power of vision functions as a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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