Encouragement and Enthusiasm

Encourage your children always. When they’re little, as they get older and as they are teenagers, in whatever they’re doing, help them to identify  what they really want to do and when you nurture a supportive, encouraging environment  there’s more chance they’ll...

D – Dreams

Encourage them to have some. Not the kind that we have when we’re asleep, the ones we have in waking hours, Big dreams, hopes, aspirations, goals whatever you want to call them. When we get clear about what we want, get focused, think about it, make plans for it,...

C – Confidence

Confidence building is crucial Encouraging self- confidence and self -belief will help them achieve what they want to. Not an arrogance or big headed attitude at all, just a way of letting them know you believe in them and that they have all the resources inside that...

B – Believe in them

There can be a lot of negativity around our children. We are living in a world where there is a lot of bad news and they are exposed to it a lot of the time. Newspapers, news programmes, even listening to the majority of people’s conservations, focusing on the...

A – Acceptance

You have already ‘accepted’ them into your life, by having them. When you accepted that tiny bundle of joy into your life, you were also accepting all that he or she would bring with it, you just couldn’t know than what that would be! I don’t mean accept anything they...

P.A. Renting

Had a day today dedicated to doing lots of things for my boys and had the thought that Parenting really was like having their own P.A (Personal Assistant!) I’m sure that’s what they think I am a lot of the time! Maybe that’s what Pa-renting really...