Just How Do I Become A Really Good Parent?
Raising a child has never been easy or simply. Did you ever wonder how we learn to become parents? Most people believe the instinctual theory of parenting, where there is an inborn tendency to act in a certain manner. Supposedly, parents are then capable of providing the love, nurturing, compassion and skill necessary to raise a healthy child. Not everyone supports this theory. Many believe that parenting is a learned behavior that starts very young in our lives. The way we learn to parent is a process called modeling. We use the same techniques for raising our children as our parents used when we were kids.
The expressions “like father-like son” and “like mother-like daughter” suggest we will behavior like our father or mother because of our many experiences we had with them. The experiences we had with our parents (negative or positive) probably account for the greater part of our parenting training. Other influences are environment we grew up in, our parent’s financial status, the culture or sub-culture our family was a part of, our ethnic heritage, our race, our religious beliefs, or birth order, and whether we are male or female.
The best parenting is when there is the use of behavior management techniques, an awareness of your own needs, and increasing your ability to be empathic. Having the understanding of these three skills can create a healthy, loving, nurturing environment for your child and you.
Linda Milo is a compassionate and nurturing parent. She is a single mother who raised six children. Over the years, she has been a nursery school teacher, a teacher for middle school children, and an active member of the PTA. For many years Linda has worked with The Family Tree, a group of volunteers working one-on-one with teens in high school and their newborns. In addition, Linda created and funded a collegiate scholarship for teen-parents in order to assist in their educational aspirations. Linda has worked with children with varying disabilities including first hand experience in learning how to manage and care for blindness with her own son. She has also volunteered in reading for the blind on WLRN radio in Miami, Florida.
Linda’s experience in parent-child connection coaching brings not only well thought out strategies, including lots of humor, but also the understanding of how the majority of us who do become parents do so with little or no formal training. Watching her own children grow, she has seen the hell of sibling rivalry over one toy as well as the joys of watching her children grow into delightful and caring adults who she now considers her best friends. Empowering parent-child connections helps parents connect with their children for a better parent/child relationship - being able to get a positive effect from the way you raise your child in today’s world.
Contact Linda at www.lindmilo@hotmail.com for a free complimentary parent-child connection coaching session!