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25 Parenting Tips For The New Year

Parenting involves nurturing your children, providing them with the best learning opportunities, ensuring a safe environment, and much, much more.

Here are 25 suggested parenting tips for optimal parenting and fresh starts, formatted in the form of a handy point-form reference list. You may already be aware of (and be acting upon) many of these points—whereas others might strike fresh perspectives.

I hope this list stimulates thought, inspiring parents to share their strengths—and ultimately empowering children to build upon theirs, too.

25 Parenting Tips

  1. Recognize what’s central to your child’s well-being. Stay attuned to their interests; abilities; learning preferences; academic, social, and emotional capacities; health; and creativity. Be available.
  2. Build resilience. Find and actualize your inner assets. Reveal these, and convey why you’re proud of them. What can kids learn from you?
  3. Embrace change. It’s inevitable, across all aspects of life, so it makes sense to try to accept and roll with transitions, Time passes, and nothing really stays the same.
  4. Show gratitude. I invite you to check out this article: An Attitude of Gratitude.
  5. Get the help you need when you need it. Support, guidance, and collaboration can be beneficial.
  6. Be tenacious. Show resolve and determination. I’ve written elsewhere about being proactive—to be willing to stretch boundaries, to be adventuresome, to try new techniques, to welcome tenacity.” Here’s a link: Tenacity.
  7. Let nature be both a calming and energizing influence. Nature embodies possibilities for growth! There are many advantages, and there’s so much to learn! For example, see this article: What Strengths Can Dandelions Teach Children?
  8. Find your means of safety and control. Everyone has their own concerns, ways of functioning, and family dynamic. Be aware of yours, and also how to be flexibly responsive as circumstances ebb and flow.

Dr. Joanne Foster

Dr. Joanne Foster, an acclaimed author and educator, has dedicated over 35 years to gifted education and child development. With expertise in psychology and special education, her work empowers parents and educators, fostering creativity and high-level learning in children and teens. Dr. Foster has written countless articles, and several books—the most recent being Ignite Your Ideas: Creativity for Kids.

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