One Secret to Success for a Working Mom, Expand Your Village (Jack and Jill of America)

Jack and Jill of America member and her daughter Recently, I have become keenly aware that good kids are created by accident. They become good because someone made a concerted effort to pour positive things into them--things like, honor, discipline and respect for others. These qualities are taught through lessons and by observation. For that reason, I have been actively considering how to give my children more examples of people who embody those qualities.  Indeed, raising my children to become good people is my most important job.

Working Mom Parenting Tip: Raising Great Kids

As working moms, we have great pressure to do it all. However, the most intense pressure we feel is the pressure to raise great kids. If you’re like me, you feel like you parent by trial and error. You try something and if it seems to work for your kids and your family you do it again. If someone ends up bleeding, crying or throwing a tantrum at the end, you don’t. While that is how parenting has been done since the beginning of time, we live in the era of the Internet, which means that we lots of tools at our disposal to help us parent better. 

The Secret to Raising Great Kids, Apply Everything You Have Learned

That’s not to say that I think that we should abandon everything that we have learned from previous generations. I watched “Parental Guidance” today with Bette Midler and Billy Crystal. It’s a movie about the parenting differences between the generations and it stands for the proposition that some of the old school ways work.
Still, once we know better we should do better. I have found that getting parenting tips from parents who have done it before is a very efficient way to improve as a mom. So, I am sharing this new site I discovered with all of you. Dr. Laura Markham has devoted her life to helping parents raise great kids.


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