I read a book years back that talked about from the age of 1-9 that we have defined “What is a Mother”, “What is a Father”, “What is discipline” etc. The scary part is that most people live their life based on that knowledge.

Makes one stop and think what foundation we are passing on to our children.

We need to realize that they have an identity and gifting that they can contribute to society NOW (not just “some day” when they grow up). As you stated Shileen, they certainly DO face problems and things they have to work through just as adults do.

Once we understand this we will be able to train a generation of champions!

Watch for the next posts where we will discuss things like:

Teaching our children to discover and follow their dream.
Releasing our children to be themselves and be able to be all they were born to be.
Recognizing our children’s faults and helping them to conquer them
Teaching our children to take responsibility, take initiative and become a successful and valuable member of his society.

They need a safe place to express themselves and, of all places, the home/parents should be their number one place.

I have seen too many times what happens when parents’ attitudes are things like “oh their just kids”, “he’s just a kid, what does he know”, “he’s a kid, what problem could he possibly have”, “wish that’s all the problems I had”. Get what I’m saying?

I think that if we want our kids to respect us, we also need to respect them for where they are in their own life.

Keep up the good work, Jill! Great stuff!! =)

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Thanks so much – I plan on keeping writing. My 25 yrs plus experience in Mexico which included counseling a lot of families is finally getting onto digital paper.

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This is a really good article.

Communication between kids & their parents should be the main priority in the developmental stages.

I do believe all parents are trying to do their best in raising their kids; however, working parents have such a little time with their kids. I praise you for writing about this important topic. Thank you.