Positive Parenting also involves setting out clear definable goals of what you expect from your children and yourself.

Avoid being controlling and bossy.  If you want your kids to be happy and independent then they need to see that in yourself first.  If you want your child to be successful then let them see you be successful in something.

Children learn from what we do not what we say; so, be the happy, confident, assertive, independent person you want them to be.

To practice positive parenting then know what you want; so, you can ask yourself good questions on how to manifest.

The notebook and e-books both contain essential questions to consider when creating your parenting goals.  And I highly recommend that you do these first before you have children or before your children get too old.

    

I really like this poem in The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran 1923.  It helped me understand the relationship between parent and child.

And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, Speak to us of Children.

And he said:

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.

Let your bending in the Archer’s hand be for gladness;

For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.