At times, everyone feels a little depressed about life, and children are no exception. Just like you, children often experience ?the same old grind.? They get up for school, day care, or camp to travel the same road each weekday. Some children even look forward to weekends in the same way their parents do.
How can you put some excitement into life and teach your child to be successful? Sometimes, parents have to be spontaneous and break the routine up a bit for ?family time.? Make it a point to eat together and spend quality time doing new things.
Never say negative things about your life or how boring life is for you. Children can really tune into this, and they always copy their parents. They reflect negative thinking and can hold themselves back by worrying about the risk of failure, just like an adult. Instead, teach them about the endless opportunities that arise in every day life.
Life is full of challenges, and your child has to learn to overcome the fear of failure. This is where you come in - by measuring your child's progress. You should always point toward his, or her, past successes for positive reinforcement.
Remember the story of the ?Tortoise and the Hare?? Teach your child that slow and steady always finishes the race.
As an adult, you know that finishing anything is a ?bench mark? along the road to progress. A child will give up on a challenge, when they are too far out of their ?comfort zone.?
Giving up is a last resort. For example: Look down the road at the many challenges your child will face in college, military service, or at work. You want to establish a ?track record? of success now.
Even when challenges and problems have your child in a state of fear, you are obligated to encourage your child to move forward and do their ?personal best.? Every successful person has had to face their own fear, in order to see the endless daily opportunities that life has to offer.
Teach your child that life is full of excitement - by making the choices of exploring and trying new things, as long as they are reasonably safe activities. The experience of learning is more important than the chance of failure.
The end result will be that your child has positive memories of accomplishment, and the knowledge that he or she can always count on you.
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Raising a child does not have to be by guess and by gosh and hope you're doing it right. Parenting is an activity, and like any and every action or activity, it is subject to the principles of quality. When the principles of quality are known and applied, high quality follows. Even more important, since children learn mainly by example, they learn and apply the principles of quality in their own lives, and do very well in all regards.
From infancy, through toddlerhood, into childhood, and from there on out, children do what they see works. If crying gets results, they cry. If anger works, they are angry. They don't understand until much later, if ever, that what worked with their parents when they were very young might not work in other settings. So they keep on crying, or being angry, since they know it works, and it's the only thing they know works. Their lives are not very happy.
Enter the principles of quality. What does it mean to be a high quality parent? Exactly the same as being a high quality violinist, telephone repairman, baseball player, or retail clerk. They get good results. High quality doesn't happen by accident or by making good guesses. High quality is based on the principles of quality. Anyone who is better than average at a particular activity is applying some of these principles, whether they know it or not.
Here is the other side of the coin: anyone who is applying the principles of quality, to any activity, will get good results. In the case of parents, other parents will envy them for having such great kids.
So what are the three Major Principles of quality, the four Applied Principles, and the thirteen Quality Actions? Far more than will fit in one article. But here is the first Major Principle, on which all the rest are based, and without which all the rest will not work very well if at all:
Quality is an attitude.
This is true. Quality is not a skill or a talent or high intelligence or a gift. Quality comes directly from the desire to do something better, get better results, improve something. The most wonderful thing about this principle is that anyone can do it. Starting anytime. That desire is yours if you want it, and no one, absolutely no one, can stop you from having it.
Notice also, that the Quality Attitude is a desire to do something better, to get better results. A person who is improving, even if he is not good yet, is succeeding. Failure is only lack of improvement. A brand new parent might not be a good parent at first. But if he or she wants to get better at it, and does what it takes to get better at it, eventually he or she will be a good parent, a high quality parent, and his or her kids will be great kids.
So how do you get better at something? Once you have this Quality Attitude, what do you do with it? You apply the other principles of quality. They are also freely available for anyone, without special training. They are talked about in other articles by the same author, so look them up.
But only if you want to do something better, get better results, or improve something.
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Paul M. Jerard Jr. has sinced written about articles on various topics from Leadership, Yoga Practice and Anger Control. Paul Jerard, is a co-owner/director of Yoga teacher training at Aura Wellness Center. He has been a certified Master Yoga teacher since 1995. He is a master instructor of martial arts. He teaches Yoga, martial arts, and fitness to children, adults, and se. Paul M. Jerard Jr.'s top article generates over 165000 views. to your Favourites.
Don Dewsnap has sinced written about articles on various topics from Teachers, Social Issues and Parental Care. Don Dewsnap has spent years studying quality and its principles and applications. Now he has put his knowledge into a readable, useable book: Anyone Can Improve His or Her Life: The Principles of Quality. Read more about the book at. Don Dewsnap's top article generates over 4400 views. to your Favourites.
