Helping Parents Succeed
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Parents sometimes need to be cruel for the good of their children
One of the hardest things to come to terms with when you become a parent is the realisation that sometimes you are going to feel you are mean, or even cruel.
It is not that you are going to cause your children physical pain, but sometimes you have to allow them to try things out even if they fail in their attempts, or even miss out on things.
I have recently learnt a very important thing about myself – I am very task orientated. I love interacting with my children, but I am not too good on free play and just hanging out. I benefit from a little structure and play with a focus. I don’t mind if the game goes off on a tangent, but I do need that little bit of structure to feel really relaxed with my children.
Even if your children are good at amusing themselves most of the times, there may come a day when they get bored. That is when parents have to find ways to keep them occupied.
Try a couple of these ideas here and the boredom will soon be a distant memory.
Children love playing with other children of their own age so if you can, try to arrange some play dates for them.
My children have always travelled well. I’ve pinned it to the fact that the first few years of their lives were spent on long trips everywhere as we lived so far away from any centre. To get the milk alone was a 20-minute drive into town!
Now, that we are urban dwellers, most of our journeys are short ones, but during the last three weeks, we’ve embarked on long three-hour-or-more journeys and I was amazed at how well the eight-, six- and three-year-olds coped.
TRYING to fit in your needs, your children’s needs, work and all the day to day jobs we all love to hate can be exhausting.
There is a saying that goes “If you want something done, give it to a busy person.” And who is busier than a working parent?