3 things which will make your journey of becoming an effective parent easy.
Parenting is an art and science, but don't worry even if you have done commerce or not completed your education you can still be a great parent.
We have to keep in mind following 3 things in order to make our parenting journey easy.
1. Open Mindset
We all have some preconceived notions as to how parenting should be done; it could be due to how we were raised or how we saw other people raise their children. Some of the things may be good but there is a high probability that the method was wrong.
So we should have an open mindset that whatever we knew about parenting could be wrong.
2. LLL - Life Long Learner
A great part of parenting is facing challenges. Our children will continuously throw challenges at us, the challenge thrown by a 3 year old would be different from the challenge thrown by a 10 year old or even an 18 year old.
So we should be willing to adapt to the situation, learn new parenting skills and help our children in their transition into adulthood.
3. Last but not the least, Patience.
While we are upbringing our children we will need loads and loads of patience.
Parenting is not a 1 day job, 1 week job or a 1 month job, it is a life long process. To be an efficient and effective parent we need to have patience.
✓Patience in teaching our children good habits.
✓Patience when they fall in trouble.
✓Patience in helping our children understand themselves, their emotions and ways of expressing their emotions in a healthy manner.
If we implement these three things:
1. Open Mindset
2. LLL - Life Long Learner
3. Patience
then our journey of becoming an effective parent would become easy.
-Abrar Ibn Ibrahim.
An educationist and father of 3 amazing children.
