Parents from Striving to Thriving - Gwendolyn Smith - Bog

Parenting is filled with lots of wonderful experiences and also with challenges, doubts and uncertainties about the approaches to take with your kids. If you are like I was decades ago when my kids were young, you wonder what your kids will turn out to be. You have dreams of the perfect little angels they will be, not only as they grow up, but also as they become adults. You want the absolute best for them.Perhaps also, there are days of anxiety as you encounter new situations and wonder what the best approaches are to handling them. Should you insist on some things being a certain way, or is there a time to let up and allow your kids some slack? If so, when is the best time? How can you ensure that they grow up to be responsible, contributing members of their communities? Is there a better approach to parenting? And if so, what does it look like? The questions can really go on and on. This book will help you answer many of these questions. It provides a framework from which to practice your parenting based on research and decades of vicarious experiences with tens of thousands of parents and their kids using approaches to parenting that are most effective. It is a compilation of years of observation, research and vicarious data gathered into 101 tips. It also presents a few tips incorporated into lessons learned in my own parenting experiences that will help you incorporate and avoid having to learn those lessons in your own experiences. A practical guide as well as a source of inspiration, you'll find that more than just a few of the tips are focused on activities outside of the home: on the job and in your daily interactions with others. Many are about you and how you show up in the world. Make no mistake, every part of your life is highly interwoven and consequently will also affect what you do at home. The emotions, feelings and habits created in one area have a way of creeping into other areas of your life.Additionally, your children will always model your behavior before they listen to your words. Making it important to continuously grow, empower and enrich your lives. By applying the tips you will become a role model and a positive life-long influence in your children's lives.While nothing can promise well-rounded, perfect kids, using these tips will most certainly provide a much greater opportunity for you to raise your children to be fully functioning, successful kids and adults. There are two sections in this book. Section I is arranged in a random, numerical order which facilitates your reading, while Section II is arranged into categories for your convenience in selecting a topic. They are divided as follows: Parenting and Home Life, Romance and Relationships, Business and Work, Finances, Mind and Spirit, Physiological Needs and Networking and Supporting.Use these tips as needed and make a habit to review them often so they become a part of your daily experiences. I am both delighted and excited to share them with you.Be sure to take advantage of the FREE Bonus offered at the end of the book. It's an online resource with videos and other training to support your implementation.