Raising Able Children: how to nurture capable confident young people

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Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.

You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.

The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.

Parenting is THE most important job most people will do in our lifetimes, with the longest lasting legacy. Parenting is one of the most challenging jobs we will do. Lucky for us, children are forgiving of their parents, when we make parenting mistakes. Parenting and discipline are about love and connection. Parenting is time. Good parenting is love, time and mutual respect. Parenting is fun. Parenting can be tough, because parenting last a very long time. Parenting can feel like it will never go away. Discipline can be positive. Discipline is about teaching children, not punishing them. Discipline can be executed without crusing their spirit. Have faith, parents! Invest time in your children. Good parenting in the first 11 years pays off when they become tolerable, even enjoyable tweens & teens. Good teenagers are made, not born. Parenting is a process. Hopefully you got some ideas from this blog to make the parenting process easier, and you got started with a positive parenting plan. The Raising Able Family Management System provides a structure to nurture heathy family dynamics and a plan for parents to influence their children through positive discipline. Chores are a vital way for children to learn self-discipline and can be incorporated in a family's routine. Regular family chores will implant an attitude that can last a lifetime. My kids grew up in the Boston area in an affluent community, all the more reason to have chores to counteract entitlement. Chores are foundational.

I'm Susan, a chicken and parenting EGG-ducator, author, speaker, and mother of 4 children in their 20s.

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