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Many parents want to spend more time with their children
Children need positive parental involvement perhaps more than anything else to keep their attitude and behavior on track.
It is not only the child who benefits in crucial ways, the parent also benefits. Particularly in the first 3 years the child is simply so magical and the mutual, instinctive need for bonding so intense, that the parent’s heart is nurtured and even healed through close engagement with the child.
Many parents want to spend more
time with their children.
They recognize their child’s real need for more parental involvement. And they realize how their own heart longs for more close time with the child. But they believe they just don’t have the time.
At the same time, one of the important strengths that parents want to impart to their children is the inner fortitude that comes with the belief that “you can do it.”
We want our children to face challenges with a can-do attitude,
but we do not model that attitude when we accept defeat
regarding our own life-challenges.
The fact is that YOU CAN DO IT when it comes to providing your child with the loving, the positive parental involvement that both you and your child need to feel and to do great.
There are four basic steps to achieving the goal of adequate parental involvement:
- Face how you really feel. A parent can sense when a child’s mood, attitude or behavior problems are a way of calling out for more parental involvement.
- When you recognize the need for spending more quality time with your child, notice your attitude. If you think that you cannot do it, let go of that attitude and try to just presume that YOU CAN DO IT.
- Remain open and trusting that you will find a way to at least gradually spend more time with your child, even it the progress is slow going.
- Seize your opportunities, however small they may be, to increase the quantity and the quality of your parental involvement.
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