It's normal to worry about how our children will turn out in the future. Will they accept the values and ideals that we want to pass on to them? Will they follow the path we hope they will take?
Respond with Sensitivity
Build the foundation of trust and empathy beginning in infancy. Tune in to what your child is communicating to you, then respond consistently and appropriately. Babies cannot be expected to self-soothe, they need calm, loving, empathetic parents to help them learn to regulate their emotions. Respond sensitively to a child who is hurting or expressing strong emotion, and share in their joy.
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About 80 percent of the youth in the study said their parents were more concerned with their achievement or happiness than whether they cared for others. |
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Despite the significance that it holds in our lives, teaching children to care about others is no simple task. |
As I navigate this world of parenting, I find myself actively trying to move away from the world of "stuff" and focus more on the things that matter most. |
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We see it all the time. A child “acting up,” making a fuss in his stroller, or rolling on the floor bawling, because he wants something he is not getting. |
This study drew upon the physiological model of stress and desensitization processes to deduce hypotheses linking the intensity of conflict communication and exposure to familial verbal aggression in childhood to experiences of conflict within rom Read more |
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Parenting is often implicated as a potential source of individual differences in youths’ emotional information processing. |
In front of the wood-burning stove, well into winter, we began our typical summer vacation daydreaming. We settled at last on a cross-country road trip from New York to Oklahoma, USA, to see family. Thus began our planning of a long car trip. |
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Suddenly my child, who'd embraced her surroundings with the wonder we all aspire to, had somehow become jaded. For her world had categories. And these categories not only elevated some things, but they also made others worse. |
For many people, "creativity" is a term synonymous with artistic expression. |
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