Good Parenting; Parent-Child Relationship part 1

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"To be a man is not a days' Job" so the saying goes


likewise to be a woman, infact I will have to say to be a parent is not a joke at all, for me I will encourage couples who are trying to raise a family to take a time out and host some kids from other families they are close to for the purpose of  a "try out" parental training and see if it's a journey they are really ready for (am sure I have seen a movie with that story line before). Now back to the main topic-let's leave the financial reasons aside for a minute and ask ourselves how we can give our children all the attention they require when our lives and career are crying for the same thing. 

As a parent, we have to go to work as early as possible, most of us don't get to speak to our kids in the mornings and when we get back from the days work, the children are either asleep or we are too tired to even have time for them. Sometimes we probably have only the weekends to be with our families but even at that, some of us have one function or the other to attend and so it goes on and on until that gap has been created between us and our children. There's always so much to catch up on and so little time to do it. 

When we get to sit with them in the little time available we are surprised at what they say and how much they know; the younger begin to learn how to be independent and the teenager's are already having different life experiences that has little or no parental guidance. There is no guideline to good parenting and its a topic that has no end. We have to make sure we keep constant touch with them daily, and we keep our doors and hearts open at all time. My kids are younger; but I hear about how parenting a teenager can be one of the hardest experiences but I want to believe if we establish a common relationship with our kids at an early stage of their childhood then our work is half way done.

We have to create a closer connection with our children, create an environment where discipline becomes almost unecessary. In the next part of this series I will be shedding more light on how we can build a fantastic relationship with our children.