Rules for Parenting
Rules I live by as a parent:
- Kids are human.
- Kids deserve apologies
- Kids deserve forgiveness
- KIDS ARE HUMAN
- Try to remember what it was like growing up and understand how much society has changed since you were a child.
- Be compassionate to their BIG emotions
- Kids deserve to be included and talked with; not at.
- Their feelings are valid and matter; they may not be the answer, but I can listen and hear what they are saying.
- Acknowledge their BIG emotions; breaking up with a boyfriend might seem trivial to us; but to them its earth shattering and it was for you too at one point
- Invest in them. If you want them to invest in you, do so in return. Learn their fav musician, learn their fav sport, watch their shows. Trust me. Its worth it