The Raising Of A Family

 A couple of weeks ago I was watching a video concerning the wonderful gift of life, in the video, the steps of pregnancy and the moment of birth are shown. The narrator of the video mentioned something that got me thinking and pondering about the amazing job that mothers do, he said "Every time a child is born a mother is born as well." When thought of this metaphor I realized that my mom learned how to be a mother with me. For children parents are the ones who teach us how to live but, who thought our parents how to teach us? We don't often ask that to ourselves, next time you have the chance to talk to your parents ask them, who taught you how to teach me?

As we know, parents didn't know how to teach perfectly the moment they became parents, I have been learning lately some really useful tools People can use to improve their teaching skills. It is helpful to know that not every family uses the same way of teaching and correcting children, and also every parent needs to adapt their teachings according to the needs of their children. The following tools and tips I am going to express are some of the ones I find useful and general for every family.

You can never get enough of what you don't need because what you don't need will not satisfy you. the phrase I quoted before expresses how it is important to know that as human beings we need to provide what is necessary, and when it comes to raising children, things that children want are not always necessary, teaching your children that some things are not necessary for them to have will make them think of what they really need in their lives and what they need to avoid.

General contact is necessary for raising kids, something we all need in our lives, especially when growing up is attention. Feeling included by having contact in any of its ways, physical, verbal, or expressive contact in general with your family will strongly affect the behavior in someone's life, especially when we talk about children. Children will look for attention no matter what, when the proper contact is given, then children have more opportunities to grow healthy and happy.

We all need breaks. Usually in the raising of children, parents in their attempt to do their best effort to raise "the perfect children" overwhelm their children with several activities that are necessary but can result in stress. It is good for us all to be busy but, it is also necessary for all of us to take the necessary rest every day to maintain a balance for happiness, there is time for everything in this life and there's indeed time to rest.

We all need challenges. As mentioned before an essential part of life is growing and the only way of growing is by overcoming challenges, that is why it is important to take advantage of learning. Children rarely will choose to learn over playing or resting that is why it is important for parents to provide the right amount of challenging learning in children's lives. Everyone is different so it is a parent's task to provide of the correct amount of challenges to every child according to their capability.

There are many important things we can do for the raising of children, but there is one we all need to know is necessary for every single child. All kids need to make choices, age-appropriate, and situation appropriate, and they need to experience the consequences. there is no better way of learning and growing than this one.