|
Parenting Emphasizes Growth
As a parent, your mission is human growth and development. You are responsible for providing a healthy physical and emotional environment for your children; to stimulate and support their learning; and to support and mentor their learning from others.
Check your parenting skills below:
| Parenting Is A Labor Intensive Activity |
| With respect to my children, I believe that I: |
Sometimes |
Always |
|
|
Give them a healthy physical environment. |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
| |
Provide a positive emotional environment. |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
| Parenting Requires Parents To Learn |
| With respect to my children, I believe that I: |
Sometimes |
Always |
|
|
Spend quality time teaching them. |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
| |
Spend time relating to and responding to their activities.
|
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
| |
Remain "in touch" with their feelings, thoughts and beliefs. |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
| |
Observe and facilitate their continuing growth and development. |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
Parenting Begins With Relating
Parenting begins with relating skills. Relating skills enable you to "see" the world as others see it, to walk in their shoes, and to respond to them from their frame of reference. |
| With respect to my children, I believe that I: |
Sometimes |
Always |
|
|
Attend to my children |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
| |
Pay full attention to their experiences and development. |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
| |
Help them understand their feelings. |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
| |
Help them to "find themselves" and to discover their interests, concerns, goals, and dreams. |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
| |
Communicate my love and acceptance of their human value and potential. |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
| |
Provide information, guidance and support on a regular basis. |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
Parenting Emphasizes Rating Skills
Rating yourself and your children requires that you understand the human growth and development life cycle. A child may learn and grow differently than an adult does, but both need to pursue lifelong learning.
You learn by knowing where you are, deciding where you want to be, and determining how to reach your goals. You can help your children learn by encouraging their exploration, expanding their understanding, and helping them initiate actions in order to achieve their goals.
|
| With respect to my children, I believe that I: |
Sometimes |
Always |
|
|
Understand and provide for my children's physical fitness. |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
| |
Understand and facilitate their positive emotional development. |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
| |
Stimulate and facilitate their learning. |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
| |
Encourage positive social relationships and social skills. |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
| |
Support their development and understanding of positive values. |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
|
Parenting Culminates With Rewarding Skills
When you reward a person, you motivate them to achieve higher levels of functioning. You rate people in order to help them progress to higher levels of performance. It is important to rate people accurately and reward them with the things that they value from their frame of reference.
|
| With respect to my children, I believe that I: |
Sometimes |
Always |
| |
Recognize and reward them for their efforts and accomplishments on a regular basis. |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
| |
Help them experience both the positive feelings and the meaning of growth and improvement. |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
| |
Provide more responses to positive behaviors than negative ones. |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
Rating Your Parenting Skills
Review your scores for encouraging growth, relating, rating and rewarding. Where are your strengths? Your growth areas?
|
