Top 5 Parenting Tips

Let us have a quick look at top 5 simple yet effective parenting tips.

1. Give Unconditional Love

Firstly you must remember that your children are not going to remain young always. Your child would not
remain a baby or a pre-schooler forever. Time flies so fast, that they will grow up soon. Hence, you should
make the most of your childs growing years.

The childhood of your child is the time when you can spend maximum amount of time with your child and
grow close to her. Once, they grow into teenagersand adults, they get so busy with their own lives. You
should try to have as many as happy memories as possible of each age of your child from toddler to
teenager. Let them know how much you love and that you will always love them.

2. Put Yourself in Their Shoes

If any time, you feel irritated by your childs demands or feel that your child is being difficult, put your self
in their shoes for a moment. Try to think about the time when you were a child and felt the same way. If
your child wants to stay in her friends house and you do not want to allow her, think about it from your
childs point of view. Remember the time when you were also ten years old like her and you and your
entire gang had planned to stay together in someones house.

Remember how you had plans to play games with each other and have a lot of fun. How excited you had
felt about the whole idea and how bad you would have felt if you had missed it! Those times with friends
will not come back and you as a parent today will cherish those childhood memories forever. In the same
way, see the situation from your ten year olds perspective.

3. Develop Healthy Eating Habits From a Young Age

Make it a point to feed your child healthy food right from a young age. Give them fruits instead of chips
and pizza. If your children eat healthy foods right from a young age, then it is likely that the habit will
continue till adulthood. Food habits developed at a young age often stay on till later in life. If children get
used to eating nutritious and healthy food right from a young age, they are more likely to eat well as
adults too.

4. Have Family-Time!

Many fathers come home late at night, by which time their children are already in bed. Make it a point to
have at least one meal together as a family. Basically, you should try and make it a point to do something
together as a family. Set aside fifteen minutes every evening, when the entire family will together clean
the house! Or, you can also play some board games five days a week together like Monopoly. This will
help all of you to bond together as a family and will also help siblings become closer.

5. Try to Make Your Children Self-Reliant

Try to make your child independent and self-reliant. Do not do everything for your child as this will make
them more and more dependent on you. Children should be given an opportunity to do simple tasks
which can be done by them, without the parent doing it for them. Some parents do everything for their
children which can cause problems later on in life. When children do things by themselves, they become
self-reliant which in turn increases self-esteem.
Also, avoid doing your childs homework. Some parents do their childs homework which is not right. You
can guide your child and help them when they are doing homework, but do not do it for them.

Making your child do a little cleaning of the house, folding of clothes, and washing dishes, etc will help
them to learn basic life skills which everybody needs to know.

These are some important parenting tips which can help parents during the journey of parenthood. At the
end of the day, remember to be good role models for your child as parents are the biggest role models for
children. Memories of parent-child relationship are special to every parent and child and these hold a
special place in every parent and childs heart!

The 12 Stages of Life

The Twelve Stages of the Human Life Cycle

Which stage of life is the most important? Some might claim that infancy is the key stage, when a babys
brain is wide open to new experiences that will influence all the rest of its later life. Others might argue
that its adolescence or young adulthood, when physical health is at its peak. Many cultures around the
world value late adulthood more than any other, arguing that it is at this stage that the human being has
finally acquired the wisdom necessary to guide others. Who is right? The truth of the matter is that every
stage of life is equally significant and necessary for the welfare of humanity. In my book The Human
Odyssey: Navigating the Twelve Stages of Life, Ive written that each stage of life has its own unique gift
to contribute to the world. We need to value each one of these gifts if we are to truly support the deepest
needs of human life. Here are what I call the twelve gifts of the human life cycle:

1. Prebirth: Potential The child who has not yet been born could become anything a
Michaelangelo, a Shakespeare, a Martin Luther King and thus holds for all of humanity the
principle of what we all may yet become in our lives.
2. Birth: Hope When a child is born, it instills in its parents and other caregivers a sense of
optimism; a sense that this new life may bring something new and special into the world. Hence,
the newborn represents the sense of hope that we all nourish inside of ourselves to make the
world a better place.

3. Infancy (Ages 0-3): Vitality The infant is a vibrant and seemingly unlimited source of energy.
Babies thus represent the inner dynamo of humanity, ever fueling the fires of the human life cycle
with new channels of psychic power.

4. Early Childhood (Ages 3-6): Playfulness When young children play, they recreate the world
anew. They take what is and combine it with the what is possible to fashion events that have
never been seen before in the history of the world. As such, they embody the principle of
innovation and transformation that underlies every single creative act that has occurred in the
course of civilization.

5. Middle Childhood (Ages 6-8): Imagination In middle childhoood, the sense of an inner
subjective self develops for the first time, and this self is alive with images taken in from the outer
 world, and brought up from the depths of the unconscious. This imagination serves as a source
of creative inspiration in later life for artists, writers, scientists, and anyone else who finds their
days and nights enriched for having nurtured a deep inner life.

6. Late Childhood (Ages 9-11): Ingenuity Older children have acquired a wide range of social
and technical skills that enable them to come up with marvelous strategies and inventive
solutions for dealing with the increasing pressures that society places on them. This principle of
ingenuity lives on in that part of ourselves that ever seeks new ways to solve practical problems
and cope with everyday responsibilities.

7. Adolescence (Ages 12-20): Passion - The biological event of puberty unleashes a powerful
set of changes in the adolescent body that reflect themselves in a teenagers sexual, emotional,
cultural, and/or spiritual passion. Adolescence passion thus represents a significant touchstone
for anyone who is seeking to reconnect with their deepest inner zeal for life.

8. Early Adulthood (Ages 20-35): Enterprise It takes enterprise for young adults to accomplish
their many responsibilities, including finding a home and mate, establishing a family or circle of
friends, and/or getting a good job. This principle of enterprise thus serves us at any stage of life
when we need to go out into the world and make our mark.

9. Midlife (Ages 35-50): Contemplation After many years in young adulthood of following
societys scripts for creating a life, people in midlife often take a break from worldly
responsibilities to reflect upon the deeper meaning of their lives, the better to forge ahead with
new understanding. This element of contemplation represents an important resource that we can
all draw upon to deepen and enrich our lives at any age.

10. Mature Adulthood (Ages 50-80): Benevolence Those in mature adulthood have raised
families, established themselves in their work life, and become contributors to the betterment of
society through volunteerism, mentorships, and other forms of philanthropy. All of humanity
benefits from their benevolence. Moreover, we all can learn from their example to give more of
ourselves to others.

11. Late Adulthood (Age 80+): Wisdom Those with long lives have acquired a rich repository of
experiences that they can use to help guide others. Elders thus represent the source of wisdom
that exists in each of us, helping us to avoid the mistakes of the past while reaping the benefits of
lifes lessons.

12. Death & Dying: Life Those in our lives who are dying, or who have died, teach us about the
value of living. They remind us not to take our lives for granted, but to live each moment of life to
its fullest, and to remember that our own small lives form of a part of a greater whole.

Since each stage of life has its own unique gift to give to humanity, we need to do whatever we can to
support each stage, and to protect each stage from attempts to suppress its individual contribution to the
human life cycle. Thus, we need to be wary, for example, of attempts to thwart a young childs need to
play through the establishment high-pressure formal academic preschools. We should protect the
wisdom of aged from elder abuse. We need to do what we can to help our adolescents at risk. We need
to advocate for prenatal education and services for poor mothers, and support safe and healthy birthing
methods in third world countries. We ought to take the same attitude toward nurturing the human life cycle
as we do toward saving the environment from global warming and industrial pollutants. For by supporting
each stage of the human life cycle, we will help to ensure that all of its members are given care and
helped to blossom to their fullest degree.

Subject: A STORY OF LOVE, WEALTH & SUCCESS - INSPIRATIONAL

A woman came out of her house and saw 3 old men with long white
beards sitting in her front yard. She did not recognize them.
She said "I don't think I know you, but you must be hungry.
Please come in and have something to eat."

"Is the man of the house home?", they asked.

"No", she replied. "He's out."

"Then we cannot come in", they replied.

In the evening when her husband came home,

she told him what had happened.

"Go tell them I am home and invite them in!"

The woman went out and invited the men in.

"We do not go into a House together," they replied.

"Why is that?" she asked.

One of the old men explained: "His name is Wealth," he said pointing
to one of his friends, and said pointing to another one, "He is Success,
and I am Love." Then he added, "Now go in and discuss with your
husband which one of us you want in your home."

The woman went in and told her husband what was said. Her husband
was overjoyed. "How nice!!", he said. "Since that is the case, let us
invite Wealth. Let him come and fill our home with wealth!"
His wife disagreed. "My dear, why don't we invite Success?"
Their daughter-in-law was listening from the other corner of the house.
She jumped in with her own suggestion: "Would it not be better to
invite Love? Our home will then be filled with love!"

"Let us heed our daughter-in-law's advice,"

said the husband to his wife.

"Go out and invite Love to be our guest."

The woman went out and asked the 3 old men,

"Which one of you is Love? Please come in and be our guest."

Love got up and started walking toward the house. The other 2 also
got up and followed him. Surprised, the lady asked Wealth and Success:
"I only invited Love, Why are you coming in?"

The old men replied together: "If you had invited Wealth or Success,
the other two of us would've stayed out, but since you invited Love,
wherever He goes, we go with him.
Wherever there is Love, there is also Wealth and Success!"