Five Parenting Tips for a Healthy Family

Five Parenting Tips for a Healthy Family

Follow these practical tips to help build a balanced, happy, and healthy family.

Stick to Your Role as the Parent 

  • Be clear in explaining to your children exactly what actions are expected.
  • Provide positive rewards, feedback, and constructive reinforcement for hard work and successes accomplished.
  • Be consistent in your style.
  • Apply flexibility towards the way your child wants to complete a task. Encourage their creativity and thought process.

Be a Role Model

  • Always remember that you are the role model to your child. Do it the right way as they learn by observing and copying you.
  • Be sure to display affectionate and caring behavior.
  • Create a solid routine as this creates a safe and dependable environment.
  • Set aside time to bond one on one with your child.

Setting Family Rules

  • Rules are the glue of a family and set the foundation for learning responsibility and building respect.
  • Create consequences for positive and negative behaviors.
  • Be steadfast in adhering to the rules that you have set.
  • Aim to involve children in making the rules as well as participating in decision-making situations.

Involve the Entire Family

  • Development of self-esteem is an active process. Therefore, empower your children as and when appropriate to participate actively in family functioning and decision making.
  • Teach values and skills by actually “doing things” with a child.

Encourage Communication 

  • Encourage children to discuss the issues that are important to them.
  • Use active listening behaviors such as eye contact and be sure to listen attentively and carefully to what they are saying.