How To Express Your Emotions As A Parent
Parenting can be trying sometimes; parents may not know how to handle emotions from their children and how to be the right role models for mature expression of emotions and self-discipline.
Parents can express themselves however, how they do it matter so much to their children, this is because it is depicting how children will handle emotions in the future.
What To Avoid
- Yelling is a bad idea: It can be annoying most of the time to keep reminding a child what they need to do and what they need not do. However, frustration by yelling at them gives them more energy to rebel against you as a way of protecting themselves from harm.
- Corporal punishment: Instilling discipline in a child is not easy. They take time to understand why they should leave what they are doing. Most African parents, however, believe in corporal punishment as a way to instill discipline. Corporal punishment can be detrimental and destructive most of the time. It causes fear, rebellion, and hatred. It is advisable to come up with ways to punish a rebellious child with love rather than hitting them.
- Harsh punishments: In as much as it is good to make a child understand that what they are doing is wrong, however, some punishments are too unbearable for children and it makes them reserved, withdrawn, and rebellious. Punishments like missing meals, lying on the ground, or doing hard chores that are unbearable can be detrimental to a child’s health.
What To Do Instead
- Allow yourself as a parent to show calmness first and if it is not possible at the time, take some time off to avoid saying what you do not want to say. Calm down your anger to be able to understand why a child keeps doing something wrong.
- It is more important to correct your child with love rather than rage and frustration. This could cause you to harm them even physically. Instead, teach them and keep training them with patience and firmness, and authority without causing fear and hatred in them.
- Instead of detrimental punishments, try taking away their tertiary and secondary privileges until you are satisfied with their behavior. Privileges like watching their favorite TV shows, going on vacation, and playing for long hours can help you to discipline your child with patience and more firmness.
- Be a role model. Children will watch how things are done more than they will listen. Let them get it right from you. Be a person that does what you want them to learn to do.
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