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#4: Be A Safe Haven For Your Child Let your child know that you’ll always be there for them by being responsive to the child’s signals and sensitive to their needs. Support and accept your child as an individual. Be a warm, safe haven for your child to explore from. Children raised by parents who are consistently responsive tend to have better emotional development, social development, and mental health outcomes ​

#3: Practice Kind And Firm Positive Parenting Babies are born with around 100 billion  brain cells  (neurons) with relatively little connections. These connections create our thoughts, drive our actions, shape our personalities and basically determine who we are. They are created, strengthened and “sculpted” through experiences across our lives. Give your child positive experiences. They will have the ability to experience positive experiences themselves and offer them to others ​4​ . Give your child negative experiences. They won’t have the kind of development necessary for them to thrive. Sing that silly song. Have a tickle marathon. Go to the park. Laugh with your child. Ride through an  emotional tantrum . Solve a problem together with a positive attitude. Not only do these positive experiences create good connections in your child’s brain, but they also form the memories of you that your child carries for life. When it comes to discipline, it seems ha...

Walk the walk. Don’t just tell your child what you want them to do. Show them. Human is a special species in part because we can learn by imitation ​1​ . We are programmed to copy other’s actions to understand them and to incorporate them into our own. Children, in particular, watch everything their parents do very carefully. So, be the person you want your child to be —  respect  your child, show them positive behavior and attitude, have empathy towards your child’s emotion — and your child will follow suit. Related:  6 Highly Effective Ways To Teach Kids Respect #2: Love Them And Show Them Through Action Show your love . There is no such thing as loving your child too much. Loving them cannot spoil them ​2​ . Only what you choose to do (or give) in the name of love can — things like material-indulgence, leniency, low expectation, and over-protection. When these things are given in place of real love, that’s when you’ll have a spoiled child. Loving...

Top 10 Parenting Tips On Improving Parenting Skills #1 Be A Good Role Model Walk the walk. Don’t just tell your child what you want them to do. Show them. Human is a special species in part because we can learn by imitation ​1​ . We are programmed to copy other’s actions to understand them and to incorporate them into our own. Children, in particular, watch everything their parents do very carefully. So, be the person you want your child to be —  respect  your child, show them positive behavior and attitude, have empathy towards your child’s emotion — and your child will follow suit. Related:  6 Highly Effective Ways To Teach Kids Respect #2: Love Them And Show Them Through Action Show your love . There is no such thing as loving your child too much. Loving them cannot spoil them ​2​ . Only what you choose to do (or give) in the name of love can — things like material-indulgence, leniency, low expectation, and over-protection. When these things...

10 Good Parenting Tips Parenting is not easy. Good  parenting is hard work. How To Be A Good Parent? What makes a good parent? A good parent is someone who strives to make decisions in the best interest of the child. A good parent doesn’t have to be perfect. No one is perfect. No  child  is perfect either … keeping this in mind is important when we set our expectations. Successful parenting is not about achieving perfection. But it doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t work towards that goal. Set high standards for ourselves first and then our children second. We serve as a role model for them. Here are 10 tips on learning good parenting skills. Many of them are not quick nor easy. And probably no one can do all of them all of the time. But if you can keep working on the tips in this parenting guide, even though you may only do part of these some of the time, you will still be moving in the right direction.