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Play with your Child

Playing is an essential part of every child’s development. Being able to play freely enables your child to gain invaluable life skills, including socialising, learning about themselves and others and discover different ways to do things.

Teach your child to be organised

Teach your children to be organised because it helps cut down on everyone’s stress.  You can help by teaching your child strategies that make staying organised easier and by setting a good example by working to be organised yourself.

Speak softly and gently

Most parents spend a lot of time talking only a few things with their children. Wash your hands, Do your homework, stop that, Go to bed. Getting your child to do something by being gentle is just as easy as yelling and screaming. You can choose to yell, or you can choose to speak calmly. Your child is far more open to hearing from you when you talk in a kind, gentle and respectful way.

Be Patient

In this high –pressured, fast paced, frenetic world, the norm has become to expect things to happen immediately. Most people get really irritated when thing don’t! Unfortunately, the consequences of approaching life like this are that they lose sight of the really important things in life such as their relationship with their children.

Respect privacy and personal space

Everyone likes to have some personal time and a bit of personal space. Kids are no different. Regardless of their ages, they need time to relax, re-energise and be alone.

Tell the Truth

Children need to have a sense of what is right and wrong. If you teach the value of honesty your children at a young age, then it won’t be so difficult to expect that of them when they are older. Telling the truth will just be a habit.

Laugh a lot

Life can be too serious if you are not careful. The bills and the mortgage can get you down. But, for children, life should be full of hope and fun, joy and curiosity. Connect with your young self. Remember how it felt to be young, enthusiastic, hopeful, playful and free from too many responsibilities. Try to feel at ease with your child like self and life in general.

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