101 Parenting Ideas Every Parent Must Read

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Parenting can be very tricky and one cannot follow a single guideline or parameters as no two children are alike. Even parents with multiple children need to vary their parenting style based on each child’s personality.

The fact that parenting did not come with a manual makes it an exciting yet frightening phase in a parent’s life. The parenting books can only get you too far, and the parenting tips you read online may not be as effective to you children as they are to another parent’s child.

Truth be told, parenting is almost always instinctual and each parent-and-child’s journey is different form the next. So relax, mum, because you are doing a good job. And in case you want to earn more “cool mum” points with the kiddos, I have enumerated a handful of suggestions here:

101 Parenting Tips To Consider

  1. Think before you speak
  2. Be considered a positive role model
  3. Listen, capture, and redirect
  4. Be spontaneous and loving
  5. Have fun with them in the backyard in above ground pools. Here you can read some of the best above ground pools reviews and buy the perfect one for your kids.
  6. Promote a secure and loving home environment
  7. Concentrate on cooperation over competition
  8. Focus on your youngster and what interests them
  9. Stress the conduct not the kid
  10. Don’t compare them with their siblings or others kids. Each child is unique.
  11. Remind them frequently just how much you love them
  12. Spend some time together doing what they like to do
  13. Pay attention to their perspective and assist them to achieve their goals
  14. Help them with their assignment but do not do it for them
  15. Get involved with their school
  16. Encourage them to make friends and welcome their friends into your home
  17. Assist your child to discover new interests or skills
  18. Understand that tomorrow is another day. Ask yourself if “it will really matter tomorrow?”
  19. Provide positive and reassuring feedback
  20. Let them know you like them {don’t suppose they don’t need to hear it often}
  21. Guide by example
  22. Let them know everything has its own time
  23. On persistence ~ show them why they have to wait
  24. Set goals together
  25. Give real responses
  26. Give real effects
  27. You have to follow through along with your actions and your words
  28. Reward them for their patience
  29. Reward them for getting a job done well, especially when you are not looking!
  30. Expose them to fun activities that will make them work on their patience
  31. Teaching diversity ~ watch films that feature different countries and culture
  32. Teaching diversity ~ let your kinds find pen pals from other countries
  33. Teaching diversity ~ create a game from researching different cultures
  34. Capitalize on “teaching moments” in life
  35. Investment time
  36. Encourage cooperation
  37. Foster openness and family participation
  38. Set family goals
  39. Encourage them explore your town
  40. Do not, and I repeat, do not embarrass them!
  41. Show them the importance of smile by example
  42. Encourage them to be open about their feelings
  43. Praise them for their good behavior
  44. Learn how to pay attention to your youngster
  45. Helping Hands ~ teach them the significance of helping others
  46. Learn how to pick your battles
  47. Know your child to understand and connect with them better
  48. Be their friend, but let them know that you are the parent
  49. Monitor online activities
  50. Teach your child to be independent
  51. Let them be!
  52. Set rules for them to follow at home
  53. Know their friends
  54. Discuss drug and alcohol appropriately with your children
  55. Appreciate who they are
  56. Do not undermine your child’s capacity
  57. Do not underestimate your child’s capabilities
  58. Promote new activities
  59. Set routines and be consistent
  60. Clarify, teach, speak, hear, inspire, reward, assistance, and cheer on
  61. Hold back the insult and opt for constructive criticism
  62. Allow your kids to talk about their emotions
  63. Foster an open environment in the home and never be judgmental
  64. Teach them to be comfortable in their own skin
  65. Don’t give answers provide instructions
  66. Encourage them to explore on their own
  67. Challenge them
  68. More than their achievements, be proud of their efforts
  69. Educate your children to respect others
  70. Teach them the magic of saying “Sorry”
  71. When on the verge of losing temper, take a deep breath before speaking.
  72. Encourage honesty
  73. Teach your child to apologize by apologizing when you did something wrong
  74. Encourage concern
  75. Show persistence
  76. It is never early to teach them about money and saving
  77. Explain that they “cannot have it all”
  78. Master table manners
  79. Help them to unleash their potentials
  80. Teach your kids to make thank you notes
  81. Spend time together
  82. Let them know that you trust them
  83. Make family rules together
  84. Enforce these family rules strictly
  85. Talk to your kids concerning the rules
  86. Set real punishments for breaking rules and avoid empty threats
  87. Include your child in making plans and decisions
  88. Know when to make exceptions to the rules
  89. Remember that they are not you!
  90. Guide them to improve themselves
  91. Ask yourself “will it matter in 5 years?”
  92. Teach them self-respect
  93. Respect your child
  94. Speak with them not at them
  95. Listen to them positively
  96. Inspire them to do the best in every situation and to not give up
  97. Follow your parents’ footsteps
  98. Show your child the importance of having and being a friend
  99. Challenge them to be better versions of themselves
  100. Get healthy together
  101. You enjoyed your childhood, let them enjoy theirs

If you made it here, then thank you and congratulations! I hope you learned new things on how to become a cool parent to your child. If you have more ideas, do drop them in a comment below and I will be delighted to add them to this list!  :laugh:

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102 Comments

  1. That’s one heck of list, amounts to a parenting manual. I agree with a lot of it, but my main objective in raising my kids was having an open dialogue with them, setting boundaries and expectations.

  2. There is never the perfect road map to parenting. It is mostly trial and error. But the experience is really surreal. The suggestions you have made is surely be helpful to new moms or expecting moms.

  3. These are all very good tips! I bookmarked it so I can read it again and remind myself that parenting is a difficult journey yet a remarkable one. 🙂

  4. Today was a really rough day for me with lots of things going on and lots of them going wrong. I really needed that bit of encouragement you had at the top of the post, and it was really great to look through this list and realize that I already do a lot of it. Made me feel like I’m doing alright – and I also found some great new ideas, too. I had forgotten all about penpals being a thing!

    1. We all go through those rough days, the key is to not be too hard on ourselves. I am glad that I somehow made your day a little bit better today. Parenting and motherhood is a bittersweet mixture of good and bad things, and we ought to take the good with the bad. What matters is we try our best to be a good parent and we love our children with all our hearts! Yes, having penpals is cool! 😀

  5. We must be more sensitive and careful when it comes to raising a child. They will carry whatever it is that we teach them their whole lives. These are beautiful tips, I hope a lot of parents will get to read this.

  6. I personally do not have kids and I cannot begin to imagine how challenging it is. Every day, you’re faced with a new challenge and every action is so crucial and fundamental to your children.

    1. It is one of my favorite, too, but I thought it was one of the trickiest, as well. Parenting seems to be a never-ending struggle between being the best mum and the most disciplinarian mum!

    1. Above ground pools are such joy when you have small children. When my son was a toddler, I remember waking up very early to fill our pool with water in time for him to play and paddle when he wakes up! He absolutely enjoyed his pool time! 😀

  7. You have a long, yet great tips for parenting. It reminds me to check how am I doing with parenting my toddler. I’m sure I’ll be able to pick up some more from this list once the second baby is out by May! Thanks for sharing these! 🙂

  8. These are great tips. I think kids just observe and learn. So the way you behave plays a big role in their overall personality development. It’s great to find such great tips in one place… thank you for sharing.

    1. You are more than welcome. It is true, children are more like sponges ever ready to absorb whatever it is that they see around them. We teach more with what we do than what we actually teach them.

  9. Just as I was telling myself to let my kids spend more time playing in the bathroom like how I did back when I was a child. 🙂 And my favorite thing lately is telling my kids to never give up even when playing puzzle or searching for a lost toy. The message must have reached them since my 5-year-old no longer whines when she can’t find her toy and I overheard her telling her little brother one day not to give up and try harder. It’s amazing! I still have lots to learn though in this parenting journey. 😉

    1. Yes, a little and constant encouragement works wonders in children’s attitude. It is, after all, a hit-and-miss thing on some occasions, and the good thing is we parents learn as we go along! 🙂

    1. Most parents overlook this. Sometimes we are prone to making children feel that we feel bad about them, instead of making them feel that we feel about something they did.

  10. Parenting is an adventure on its own. You would never know how to act until you are actually one. Thanks for these tips.

  11. I love think before you speak the most. My husband has a bit of a temper at times and I often need to remind him tip #1. I don’t like hurt feelings in the family because of the wrong choice of words. Great tips!

    1. Yes, we must always be mindful of the way we speak, especially to our children. We ought to always communicate loving and respectful words for them to emulate. Thanks!

  12. Saved a screenshot so I can always read back if I think I’m losing my patience. Thanks for these great tips. Parenting is a tough job and it would not hurt to seek advice 🙂

  13. Long but useful tips. We all need to be reminded of these from time to time. We forget to be kids. One thing I’ve learned lately. To enjoy taking care of kids, you have to be a kid at heart. To join them in order to experience the same pure joy. 🙂

  14. there is no right or wrong when it comes to parenting, just do your best and rely on your instict as a parent
    and pray that what we have done will be enough for them to grow as a responsible children

  15. There are plenty of great parenting ideas on this list. Some of which I apply. Articles like this are always helpful. Especially for new parents finding their way.

  16. Thanks for this beautiful reminder, though I admit I fail many times with these. But, I am trying my best not to overreact and keep my cool. Not yelling is a real struggle, you know? ?

    1. I feel you! There are times when you cannot help but yell at your child and it really is a struggle to not to, especially if they are being difficult or uncooperative.

  17. This is a great list. There is no rule book in parenting, since kids are different. Nonetheless, these ideas are basic ones every parent must remember 🙂

  18. Being a mom for 15 years already I’ve done a lot of these things but not everything yet. Haha! Such a nice read though because none of us are perfect parents and could use a little reminder every so often.

    1. Wow, 15 years! And yet, no two children are alike, so you have to vary the way you raise them from one child to the next? It’s true! We all need the reminder once in a while, right? 🙂

  19. Thanks for the post. #49 is an especially timely reminder. I see many children glued to the handphone nowadays and it’s really bad. Bad for relationships and social skills. What happened to outdoor fun and exploration? Cheers 🙂

    1. Tell me about it! It really is an extra challenge to peel children’s eyes off on their gadgets. That’s why I thought it was a blessing in disguise when my little man’s Ipad broke, we have less fights and I feel less stressed about it. Now my challenge is how to keep him off the sofa and onto his bike on weekends when it is his time to play his games on the tellie! 😛

    1. We all are learning more about parenting and motherhood as we go along, with high hopes of raising our little ones to be better human beings than we are. You’re welcome!

  20. Some people find it strange that I use terms such as “respecting” my children, but they’re human beings too. They have feelings and dreams of their own. I can’t step all over them. Great list!

  21. I’m not a parent yet so it’s kinda weird why I decided to choose this post, maybe it’s because I’m a mom to a 1 year old dachshund and going 4 months shih tzu boys. So, I’m not technically a mom to a child but a mom to furbabies – in short, a furmom! Haha! But this post will help me to be a better mom in the future, I grew up in a broken family and unfortunately, I didn’t experience half of what is indicated on your list. Being in a broken family makes you promise that you’ll never ever let your future family to be broken. I want my children to be open to me and tell me everything that bothers them, unlike my current relation to my mom. That’s why there are times that I’m suffering depression due to no one to talk to. I don’t want any of my child to experience it, I want them to live their own life, I will have rules of course but I’ll make sure that won’t be the reason why they didn’t reach their dreams.

    1. Although I am not from a broken family, I understand your desire to never let your future family to be broken as they do take their toll on children and they are the most affected when parents separate. Based on what you’ve mentioned, I can tell that you are going to be a great mum in the future! And furbabies are so much like real babies, anyway, you get a lot of practice now! 🙂

  22. Loooong list. I have three kids and what I realized so far is that there is no one single successful parenting formula. While we equip ourselves with the best parenting tool, the real test happens when you are in front of your children. Especially when they throw a tantrum. Hahaha!

    1. That is so true! There is really no fool-proof formula with regards to parenting as one child varies from the next. Hay, I am also bad at tantrums, I throw one myself! Haha! 😀

  23. These are lovely tips, and nice to know that some parents remind themselves of these guidelines. I think more and more parents could use this, too. 🙂

  24. This is a great list for first-time parents like us. Basta I let my son enjoy his childhood kahit magkalat siya nang magkalat lols. Thanks for sharing! 🙂

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