Parenting With Love

 

 

Parenting

 

Some say: “Spare the rod, spoil the child.”

The reality is: Use the rod and explain your actions to Children’s Services, the police and all of the neighbors that look on disapprovingly.

Parenting has changed over the years and so have society’s views of acceptable behavior, both within the family and our children’s interactions outside the family. Discipline that was used in previous generations is now considered abusive. Our children are in so many more ways bombarded by messages from society that contradict traditional family values.

Most of us develop our tools for parenting from our experiences as children. We practice what we learned from our parents and exercise, from our fragmented childhood experiences, what we remember from the receiving end of that experience.

Needless to say, even the best of childhoods will fall short of teaching us what we need to know for such an awesome responsibility. Kids coming from fragmented homes with abusive and neglected experiences need to start by unlearning, forgiving and starting fresh.

Parenting has to upgrade its toolkit if our kids are to have a chance of succeeding in this society. We need to build into our children a strong sense of self-identity while maintaining an understanding of community responsibility. This cannot be done with a switch behind the woodshed.

Parenting is also requires the most customization to meet the unique personalities of both the parent and the children. For this reason we have diverse academic and experiential resources that we use to educate on parenting.