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by Janet Levine
Janet Levine's Know Your Parenting Personality offers something every parent needs...a blueprint to our personality and our children's personality and how they interact.
Some types are naturally better at fostering self-esteem in their chilren; some types are prone to encourage success but can create a crippling fear of failure in their children. Some types foster creativity while others foster discipline. We're all doing the best job we can of being a parent -- but it's often hard to understand how our "best job" may not always be best for our chilren. By understanding our own type and parent style, we can better understand the positive and negative impact of this style on our children, and we can work to counter some of the negatives.
The author lays out a clear and highly accurate roadmap to navigating our strengths and developing our weaknesses so we can ultimately give our kids the best we have to offer without getting in our own way. This book is for every parent who wants to connect with their children, reduce stress and be a source of life long support to their child.
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Parenting
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Some people look to their own parents as role models for their parenting styles, while others disagree with how their parents raised them and seek to parent in a completely different way. Whichever parenting style you use, it is important to know what category you fit into. Parenting Style #1: The Dominating Parent This parenting method is the one that is the most associated with parenting in earlier generations. Unfortunately, this particular parenting style is based on making sure the child completely obeyed, and often used harsh punishment. The result was often maladjusted children who in turn did the same thing to their children in a vicious cycle. If you feel that you are a dominating parent, you should definitely seek parenting counseling or immediately change your ways. Parenting Style #2: The Indulging Parent This kind of parent thinks that by buying a child toys, the child will stay quiet and not cry. While this parenting technique can work at times, it also results in the child being very spoiled, and not being willing to share. This kind of parent also shies away from the disciplining the child – specifically, in notifying the child when the child is acting in an unacceptable manner. If you think that you adhere to this kind of parenting style, you will need to strike a balance between the indulgence and practical discipline. Parenting Style #3: The Balanced Parent This parenting style is the one that is considered ideal, as well as the one that many parents strive to accomplish. This kind of parent loves to buy new things for their child, but at the same time knows boundaries. When a child acts out of place, rather than hitting or screaming at the child, the parent, in a firm voice, directs the child to the time-out corner, or takes away a favorite privilege, such as television, for an hour or two. Parenting is All About Patience Remember, as much as you as a parent might strive to be perfect, there really is not such things as a perfect parenting method. Each child is different and responds to discipline in different ways. However, hitting should never be a form of discipline. Basically, the best parent is a loving and patient parent, one who raises a polite, independent child. One year Scholarship Award is given to every teen that graduates from high school if - ? - ?For more Information about this Scholarship
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