Gaining a Child’s Trust

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In my opinion, this mother is treating her baby with disrespect atrepparttar most basic level. Instinctual fear is not something we should laugh at our toddler for having, thereby teaching her that her feelings and natural fear of big looming ice cold waves or any other potentially frightening fact of life is dismissed as meaningless. To this child, Mom is saying her whole existence is disdained, her feelings don’t matter and her mother is not there to protect her but to throw her intorepparttar 110713 pits of hell for her own amusement.

I’ve seen this happen at amusement parks, playgrounds and schools. No matter what your child is afraid of, respect his fear, acknowledge his trepidation ofrepparttar 110714 unknown and understand that with compassion and tolerance, he will overcome these basic, natural fears with time and maturity. Some children are more sensitive than others. You might have a child who embraces adventure and roller coasters with passion or a child who is horrified by a small slide atrepparttar 110715 park. This is your baby. No matter what you think they should be feeling, they have their own wiring. They’re going to move at their own internal pace. Let’s respect and honor that pace which in turn shows our child that we respect and honor him. This sets a healthy foundation for self-esteem and self-respect, which is so very important for our children to function at their best inrepparttar 110716 world.

Rexanne Mancini is the mother of two daughters. She maintains an extensive yet informal parenting and family web site, Rexanne.com – http://www.rexanne.com -Visit her site for good advice, award-winning Internet holiday pages and some humor to help you cope. Subscribe to her free newsletter, Rexanne’s Web Review, for a monthly dose of Rexanne: http://www.rexanne.com/rwr-archives.html


Holiday Expectations

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Alas, there will come a time when we parents are no longer able to performrepparttar myriad duties and routines we’ve created for our families, for any number of reasons, and we will need to give up control of making sure everyone’s holiday expectations are met. This could come inrepparttar 110712 form of a health crisis, monetary crisis, time-crunch crisis … take your pick. This isrepparttar 110713 time to delegaterepparttar 110714 responsibility ofrepparttar 110715 be-all, do-all parent and shift our focus to relishing our time with family and friends more so than relishingrepparttar 110716 accomplishments of others and our expectations of us. We are inrepparttar 110717 midst of a joyous and sacred time of year when our hearts and minds should be filled with love and good will, not with a frenzy of get-it-done anxiety.

I wish you all joyful holiday season, filled with love and happiness. Give yourselves a break and allow one or more ofrepparttar 110718 details to slip by if need be. Being there for your family in sound mind, body and spirit is ultimately more important.

Rexanne Mancini is the mother of two daughters. She maintains an extensive yet informal parenting and family web site, Rexanne.com – http://www.rexanne.com -Visit her site for good advice, award-winning Internet holiday pages and some humor to help you cope. Subscribe to her free newsletter, Rexanne’s Web Review, for a monthly dose of Rexanne: http://www.rexanne.com/rwr-archives.html




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