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    1. Asked: October 12, 2020In:

      What are the essential parenting skills every parents need to possess?

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      Alicia

      Love and affection. Be sure to support and accept the child, spend quality one-on-one time together. Stress management. practice relaxation techniques, and promote positive interpretations of events for yourself and your children. Relationship skills. maintain a healthy relationship with your spouseRead more

      Love and affection. Be sure to support and accept the child, spend quality one-on-one time together.

      Stress management. practice relaxation techniques, and promote positive interpretations of events for yourself and your children.

      Relationship skills. maintain a healthy relationship with your spouse, significant other, or co-parent, and model effective relationship skills with others.

      Autonomy and independence. It is important that you treat your child with respect and encourage him or her to become self-sufficient and self-reliant.”m

      Education and learning. Promote and provide educational opportunities for your child.

      Life skills. You provide for your child, have a steady income, and plan for the future.

      Behavior management. Make extensive use of positive reinforcement and punish only when other methods of managing behavior have failed.

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      What did you do to adjust your life when you had your first child? How do I adjust to the life of a mother?

      Alicia
      Alicia

      I never really want a baby and I’ve always made this known to my partner even before we got married. However, few years into marriage, I started to feel more comfortable with the idea of having a child because of my husband. I felt comfortable enough in our relationship, as well as comfortable enougRead more

      I never really want a baby and I’ve always made this known to my partner even before we got married. However, few years into marriage, I started to feel more comfortable with the idea of having a child because of my husband. I felt comfortable enough in our relationship, as well as comfortable enough with him and his ability to be the father for our child, then I started entertaining the thoughts of having a baby. So we both started started and I decided to get off birth control. Yes I wanted a baby but I was still shocked when we found out I was pregnant. The bigger shock came when I had my baby and it hit me that I just became a mom, and my husband, a dad! Everyone told me being a mom hits differently, and that it would change me. It indeed changed me. It changed my perspective on a lot of things. Some days I felt on top of things, and other days I felt like I was drowning. The hormones and the sleep deprivation certainly weren’t helping either. Learn to accept that your life will be different the moment you become a mom. That doesn’t mean that you should feel guilty for missing the ease of your previous life. Always knows that it’s going to be okay and no matter how crazy life becomes, or how overwhelmed you feel at the time, just know that everything will be okay. You are stronger than you know and you can handle anything that life throws at you. Just take a deep breath and tackle the problem one step at a time. Always enjoy the little moments. I’m convinced that motherhood is all about waiting for the brief moments of joy in between the moments of crazy.Take the time to appreciate those little moments when the happen. Those baby giggles, smiles, and snuggles will not always last. Enjoy them while you can. No one loves being a mom every day, it is okay and completely normal to not love being a mom every single day. That does not make you a bad parent. It makes you human. On bad days, make a little extra time to do something for yourself. Practice some self-care, take the time that you need to rejuvenate yourself. You will do just fine.

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      What “I didn’t know it could ever happen to me” moment have you had?

      Alicia
      Alicia

      That would be when I found out I was pregnant for the first time ever. It wasn’t a mistake or something but it was the unbelievable thing that has ever happened to me. Everyone close to me knows how much I dreaded having babies, having babies isn’t just my thing. I had zero optimism in that aspect.Read more

      That would be when I found out I was pregnant for the first time ever. It wasn’t a mistake or something but it was the unbelievable thing that has ever happened to me. Everyone close to me knows how much I dreaded having babies, having babies isn’t just my thing. I had zero optimism in that aspect. Couldn’t imagine myself changing diapers, singing lullabies and all those stuff. When I started having the thoughts of having a baby, and I told people around me. Most of them laughed, if course, being the kind of protons I was at that moment. Until boom! I had my baby, now I’m on the third and it’s been amazing

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