The phrases “Let us have bigger hearts for our children, let us have a better understanding of our children, let us take the right decision at the right time, let us still be not late, let us see our life so children does not run out of our hands, let us join our hearts and heads to understand them” are easier to say than done. 

Parenting is not a course of study, a skill-training program, an art, nor a business. Parenting is a natural love and mutual understanding between you and your children.

Here are some parenting tips that you can apply in your daily life to make your child mentally strong, spiritually true, physically fit, and emotionally great:

1. Understanding Your Child 

Discover what your child wants, what your child can do, what your child can be, what your child likes, what your child’s strengths and weaknesses are, what your child’s dream to be, and what your child’s feelings. Understand your child first. If they are wrong, try to correct and guide them at the right time, in the right way. Do not forget that life belongs to your child, not yours. So, be careful in dealing with them.

2. Say NO to Comparison

Every child is a unique individual, gifted with some talents. Identify your child’s talent, interests, tastes and opinions. Grow them and make sure the child shines in those particular areas with your support and encouragement. Facilitate the best for his/her talents to bloom. 

3. Gift them Character and Best Personality 

Your child comes from you, sharing your blood, sharing your colour, sharing your genes, sharing everything of yours. The child’s first school is the parent’s lap. The way you behave, the way you live at home, your choices, your selection, your tastes, etc. will be under the observation of your children. Your child starts learning character development, personality development, and value-based education right from the school age. After that, none can spoil him because their roots and foundation are strong. 

4. Check Your Child’s Environment and Understand Your Child’s Feelings

The child’s environment has a great role in their life. There are many things that a child learns from their peer groups. So have an eye on it. Spend your time with your children, for at least 30 minutes. Laugh with them, cry with them, share your limited emotions with them, make them understand what you are and what you are for.

6. Check Your Food and Eating Habits

Whatever the parents eat and drink, the child eats the same. As scientific research we are what we eat! So, our eating- habits at home are very important. Let us start eating which gives us the strength of vision, which makes our hormones under control, which makes us look like human beings. Your child will imitate your food and eating habits.

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As Khalil Gibran says, “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts and life.” What we, as parents, can do is strengthen their minds, hearts, hands and souls.