Raising children Tips | Mum Zone

              Welcome to Mum zone As parents, you know your child’s best. So more often than not, your gut mood, with good intentions is better than any tips and pointers out there. However, there are times when we need other people’s input and opinions in raising children. The best way is to be selective and find the ones that you think can fit into your method, will work within your circumstances and family way of life.

Here are some handy tips and tricks Mum Zone have gathered for our Mums and Dads to help us to go through our journey in Raising Children and Parenting.

If you have any help on Raising Children or other Child Behavioral problems, please don’t hesitate to ask our Child Behavior Expert Karen Phillip.

1: Create More Family Time

Discover the Power of 15 Minutes!
Find at least 15 minutes a day and fully spend it with your family. Read a book together, cook a meal together, speak to them, take a walk with them, or just cuddled up. Those 15 minutes with your full present really counts.

·  Create Weekly Family Night.
Set aside one night each week for family night. Don’t break the date! Take turn deciding what you want to do. Dinner out, movie night, game night, shopping night, it does not really matter what you do, as long as you do it together and have fun.

·  Plan a Monthly 24-hour Recovery Day.
Once a month plan to do no work related day. Do not talk, think, do any work type whatsoever. This means including checking your emails! Simply spend the day with your family. It does not have to be anything special or expensive. Togetherness is the key. Recovery days like this are important, you’ll be surprised how much you feel replenished and renewed.

·  Share Positive Aspects.
During dinner time and any other together time, share the lovely things that you appreciate about other family members. Focus on the goodness of other family members and how you appreciate each and every one of them. This will create a positive lovely environment at home.

·  Lunch and Listen.
Set up a lunch date with your kids or your partner. Catch up.  It does not need to be a long one, but tune in deeply to what they have to say. Listen with your heart. Learn more about them

2: Managing Parental Stress

Being responsible for our children from baby into the stage of adulthood, raising and educating them is a great challenge and is not easy. Even after they’ve moved into adulthood, we never fully stop being parents and will always try to make sure that they’re doing well. However, as a paradox, in order to reduce parental stress, we might need to learn how to be less of a parent. - See more at: http://www.mumzone.com.au/managing-parental-stress/#sthash.6W3BvBVn.dpuf

  1:: Helpful Tips for Reducing Parental Stress

Our children are bound to become rebellious sometimes, especially during the teenager years, and even though they will probably act in a way that may shock us, but we have to learn to keep our stress to a minimum. These are some of the things that might help us:

• Teenagers are far from perfect, but neither are adults.
• Teenagers most naturally want to go their own way.
• Do not forget what it was like when we were their age.
• It might seemed bad, but they might have their own very valid reason, try to listen to find out what is going on inside their heads.

There will be times when the parental stress gets too much, don’t hesitate to seek for help! Seek support groups and forums online or around your community or simply through those closest around you.

By managing our parental stress, we can allow our children to grow up in a more level-headed positive environment, therefore teaching them responsibilities and keep our emotions in check. This way you will have a better quality family life and can together enjoy life as a family.

2: Conventional and Unconventional Stress-Relievers

Below are some original and creative stress relievers that works for me and my family to feel more relax and to enjoy our life.

Maintain a Clean and Organized Living Space: Get your house organised and clean, and you’ll be able to turn your home into a beautiful, comforting environment where you can escape from daily stress.

Surround Yourself With a Supportive Social Group: Make a commitment to see more people to develop better relationships for yourself and your children. You’ll find that there are so many people in your situation with the same age children are within the school, and when you find a helpful social group you will find that it is worth the effort.

Play With Your Children: Walk, shop, talk, run, and cook with them. Kids are fun! So what better way to enjoy them than by having lots of fun with them. Play and interact with your children can be a great diversion from your stress, and your children will love you for it.

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