If you could give life advice to you children, what it would be?

One of the roles of parenting is to guide their children in becoming a better individual.  In order to do this, parents should be a line pattern to show the right path for them to take.  Every stage of the children’s growth would need different discipline and appropriate approach to deal with and parents should be hands on with this.  Your children’s accomplishments and success means more than a victory to you as parents. If you love your children and want to see their future triumphant, you should teach them to live upright and show them how live right – be a model to your children to do what’s needed under the prevailing rules of the life.

They said that being a parent means loving your children more than you’ve ever loved yourself. If there are life advices you would share to them, what it would be?

1. Be thankful and joyful. Be thankful with all the things that you have now because not everyone could have the same as you do. Be contented with what you have and enjoy good things that you have. Learn to appreciate things and everything will become light for you to handle.  Acceptance and understanding will help you to have the satisfaction and joy in the life that you have.

2. Set your goals to accomplish. While you are young, learn to visualize what you want to happen too soon. Make dreams into reality by setting your goals to accomplish. Know what you want and be determined to fulfill it. There are ways how to work on it. Keep your focus regardless of the obstacle to come. Have a greater faith and courage to do things completely.

3. Bring out the best in you. Whatever you do in life, always bring out the best in you. Life may be not so easy to walk through but be the best person ever in the midst of any situations because the core of your personality is solid and founded by strong moulder. Your integrity, sincerity, determination, humility, and other good characteristics must be developed and remain within you. 

These are just some of the good advices you may want to share your growing children. Keep them fit and shape as the best person you could be ever be proud as part of your life long mission.

Help Your Children With Their Study Skills

When your children come home from a tiring lecture and activity from school, what do you do? Ask them if they have homework to do? It is healthy if you will greet them first and give a refreshing idea that would make their weariness gone for a moment. Establishing good connection would bring them relief and enthusiasm before you help them with anything brought at home to work on.

We cannot expect a hundred percent accuracy of the learning patterns to all students because each of them has different learning aptitude. Depending on the teaching strategies implemented at school, your children may be able to grasp a portion or majority of the topic.  That’s why parents have a major role in helping their children to understand and widen the arena of getting to know it better. 

If your children are in elementary level, it is good that you ask the notes provided by their teachers. It may help where to start to assist them in the study.  Since, this level likes to play around, do your strategies in getting the full attention. You may act as a teacher for your child to follow you during studying time with her/him. If she/he gets bored easily, insert some movements in your study like a cool dance or lovely music. Do not forget to review at the end of the session. Make it short and simple for him/her to be remembered easily. 

If your children are in middle school, it is better if you could ask for an assistance of others since their subjects are quite challenging to handle. You may opt to find a tutor to help your child but you have to make a better evaluation if there’s a need to get one. Some middle school kids love competitions and group study.  You may also invite 2-3 close friend-classmates to conduct group study with your guidance. When you see that your child has been motivated, you also provide rewards and prizes for him/her if she may beat the score she/he wants to achieve. Do a kind of strategy that may be helpful and applicable to your child (that’s why you have to know your children better for you to help them in their education) .

Seed of Learning keep your children safe from other influence

How would you protect your child from the bad influence outside of your home? When your children are getting into the stage of teens they are bound to curiosity as they are exploring into the new level of their life.  Adventures are quite inviting to their eyes and their interests are little by little are also changing.  Their being open to parents are starting to become too far because of some secrets between trusted friends. 

This seems too normal to any children that experiencing transition from childhood to adolescence but how would you ensure that your children are still safe from the possible influence of the outside world of your house?  How would you enforce monitoring and control to know the safety of your kids? As parents, be active in engaging your children’s activities. Have a regular conversation about their whereabouts so you would keep track of their actions. Communication will cure your worries and fears about your children. Establishing good communications will help you know them more and bring you even closer.  Make your time available when they need you for them not to ask for someone’s help in case you are not around. Avoid substitutes in your presence because when they feel accustomed to it, the same thing will bring your out of the picture. Be supportive and let them feel you are always there for them.

Establishing your good influence at regular basis may never break your confidence that their trust and love dwells when you are present.  When you had built the good foundations with your children earlier at their development stage, it would help you nurture their growth as you practically show them how those principles and values help them in different situations. It is important that parents show best examples as they teach so that children may significantly implies the learning they find on it. Help your children to become safe from the bad influence outside your home by teaching the unfolding moral values in your heart. Live what you teach in order to earn the respect from you as role model.           

Importance of Communication to your Child

Communication to your children is just like a bridge that connects you to another point. It is necessary to keep an active communication with your kids no matter how busy you are at your business or any profession.  As your children grow, they need an attention that will help them to cultivate good behavior and skills.

Your children should never feel terrified to speak with you. Regardless how hard the matter would be and even if they made something wrong, they should have the courage to speak up and confess things with sincerity.  Of course, parents doesn’t want see your children closing the door and keep what troubled them alone.  Parents love should be bigger enough to embrace their immaturity and even their flaws because of greater love that you extend for them.  There may be conditions that you find disappointment from your children but they must first know that you are there for them no matter what.  

Work on communicating with your child better and better as they grow older.  It doesn’t mean that you only communicate only they your children are facing with problems but even in dealing with simple and ordinary routines they do everyday. Constant communication builds a better and stronger foundation of your happy relationship with them.   Share your precious time with your children and bring stories that will make them laugh and smile to ease tension and worries. Do this regularly when you all join together in a meal once a day, praying before bed time, or even bringing them up at school. 

What’s important here is you do your most significant role as parent to your children and share a valuable time with them as you help them shaping their good behaviors and establishing better connections  and relationships with family at your home sweet home.

Prepare your child to back to School

When the school year is approaching, the time for kids to spend vacation is becoming to near, so saying goodbye to odds in playing and travelling is for real. The time to go back to school is so near.  It may be expected by your children but there would be new routines for them to adjust from topsy-turvy schedule of fun and other activities to something that is really invariable. This may usual for your kids to get back things to regular school days however you have to set limits of things they should when they insist unexpected things to do so.

Starting making rules of adjustment like being “off limits” in staying late at night is a big NO.  Make sure that your children are getting sufficient rest and sleep for them to become alert at school. Practice preparing early meals for their breakfast. Eating nutritional menu is preferably good for your children to keep good health and vigour.

It is also important that you are organized with the things your children will need at school.  By the time you go shopping, you are already prepared of your list to save time and repetition of your purchase. Prepare the required school supplies in order for your children to avoid rushing into the store to buy what they need.  

It is necessary for you and your child to talk and know the things you expect and for him to behave. Learning from you is important for him to become familiar with the stuffs at school. Do a sort of orientation for your children that will serve as guideline and ideas in getting on and off from school. 

During the first day of school, do not forget to greet you children to bring more excitement.  Let them feel that your support is always present. When they get home, make sure that you wear your big smile and ask your child about his first day.