Positive Parentingbenefits

Positive parenting is a change of mindset. Allows parents to change from punishing bad behaviour to active and creative modelling. Teaching your children about positive behaviour. Positive parenting is an approach towards your children with love, empathy, and kindness. Rather than creating powers struggles through the enforcement of a set of rules.

There areadvantages to take a positive and insightful approach to your parenting. The main benefit is a happy home and your children feel loved and admired. Here are some ideas to be a positive parent

1. A More Peaceful Home:-

 Positive parenting leads to peaceful parents, which leads to more peaceful children. If power struggles are a problem in your home, this approach will reduce peace at home. With positive parenting, you work with children to promote better behaviour.Which leads children to fight less for their autonomy and you to struggle less for control. Open interaction and calmsolutions are the keystoa peaceful home.

2. More Confident Kids:-

Children getting positive parenting are more confident than those parented by other approaches. Positive parenting focuses on the behaviour you wantfrom your children. This will also take care of their successes. This focus allows to building a healthy sense of self-esteem and self-confidence. These are essential for children to grow into a happy adult.

3. More confidence in Your Parenting Skills:-

Positive parenting is about doing what feels right. When you start following your instincts, it makes you feel like a nicer parent. When you parent your child with a positive attitude, you trust your feelings. This confidence comes through to your children. To have confidence in your parenting abilities is what makes your child feel safe and secure. If a parent feels like they don’t know what they are doing, chances are your child will pick up on that.

4. A Stronger Parent-Child Relationship:-

Punishing a child makes them believe that you might hurt them again. They only understand what we teach them. If it is unkind, all they know is that the person they loved the most has hurt them. This leads to uncertainty in the parent-child relationship.

Trust plays an essential part ina parent-child relationship. When parents tell their children “it’s okay” they want them to have faith inthem. Parents want children to know, they can count on their parents when they need. Without trust in parents, your child has no sense of a safe centre from which to explore. They feel deep-seated insecurity and mistrust of the world. The influence of this carrieswith them well into adulthood.

5. Fewer Behavioral Issues:-

Children parented with a positive attitude have fewer behavioural issues. This is because of modelling. Children act out what they learn from their parents at home. If aggressive behaviour (even simple verbal threats) are being used at home. Chancesare your children more likely to display this behaviour in other environments.Act the way you wantyour child to act, with humanity, respect and emotional intelligence.

6. Fostering Independence and Self-Control:-

Positive parenting is about inspiring and instilling good behaviour in children. It also encourages children to behave not out of fear of reprimand, but out of a desire to feel good. When parents use negative discipline, the child may behave, but it will be out of fear.

Parents want their children to learn to manage impulses.  This is the “right” thing to do but should not be due to fear of discipline. Parents want them to learn that a child gets a good feeling when they do a good thing. This is how a child can develop self-control and a clear sense of right and wrong.Which will serve them long lasting benefits in their lifetime.

7. Happier Children:- 

Children with positive parents tend to be happier than those from punishing parents. Children from positive parents tend to have much lower incidences of depression. This is as a result of children having higher self-esteem. And more positive relationships with their parents as well as others.

8. More Empathetic:-

When you are a positive parent, you model responsivenessin your child. Instead of engaging them in what not to do. Parents should let their child know that they understand how a child feels. This is the seed of “Empathy”the best way to teach your child this important skill is by example. You will soon observethat your child is showing empathy, too. It’s possible they show kindness to a friend by giving a hug or sharing their favourite things. You’ll know it when you see it, and it will make it all worth it.

9. Less Stress:-

Conscious positive parenting allows you to relax and enjoy your children. When you have a peaceful home with no power battles. Parents should spend more time with children enjoying. Instead of constantly trying to keep them out of trouble. Parents can play with children; become creative in the way they teach theirchildren how to be happy. This is the greatest benefit of positive parenting! After all, they are only little for a short time, spend that valuable time with them wisely.

 Positive parenting is considerably difficult. Yet, with enough time and energy it is the best way to be a parent. The outcomes of positive parenting are nothing but beneficial to both the parent and a child.

Being a parent is arguably the hardest job on earth and not every person expects to become a parent, but some do. It’s not a simple task, and the reward it offers is priceless. I am sure no parent would like to exchange that for anything.

Thank you, for taking out your time to read.

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Author:
Hitesh Mohan
(Licensed Psychologist)