THU THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Is your relationship with your child a one-way road with only you controlling and no entry for your children? What is common between a parent and traffic lights? Both give instructions, and they’re mostly red! Our conversations with our children are abrupt and mostly monotonous. This instructional approach to upbringing is the ‘rules of traffic’ model. Parents explain to their children how to behave, assuming that they taught them rules of behavior as they did the rules of traffic. However, what you try to teach a child doesn’t necessarily get through to them. Parents, especially fathers, tend to postpone quality time and are unable to set a routine to spend more time with their kids. This is also reflected in the conversations that take place between them, which can be likened to traffic lights. For example, a teenager was told countless times that stealing was wrong yet continued to steal. The problem of parenting in this case is not that they tried to teach him the right thing, but that they considered parenting a single, narrow-minded task without fulfilling the range of parental duties. Be careful not to turn your words into a one-way road, with only you (the parent) speaking and no entry for the children. (Excerpted from an article on parenting by Dawood Vaid, Founder, Burooj Realization. Read more here: productivemuslim/productive-parenting-part-3/#ixzz3LVCzcoZl) #Putting#FamilyFirst
Posted on: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 13:05:00 +0000
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