How To Be A Patient Parent

How to be a good parent? Whether you are a mother or a father, patience plays a key role in your parenting. If you are impatient, things will be very tough for you. In your daily life, you might need to handle your carer as well as your kids' daily life activities, academics, progress and health. In such a big mess, if you lose patience, things get uglier. The mess just gets messier.

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This is the reason why it is good to know how to be a good parent. It is important to know how to be more patient. Of course, being patient is possible when you eliminate the situations which make you lose your cool. Well, how do you do that? Is it tough? Well, if you are a good planner and achiever, it isn't so tough for you. At the end of the day, it is all about management.

How To Be A Patient Parent

How To Be A Patient Parent

Enjoy Parenting
What are some of the qualities of a good parent? Firstly, enjoy parenting. After you have given birth to children, parenting is inevitable. Never treat it as a responsibility. Make that inevitability a pleasure and try to seek joy in every act of parenting. This will surely make you a peaceful and a patient parent as every moment of your parenthood becomes an enjoyable thing.

Handling The 'Waiting'
Generally, parents to need to wait a lot for their kids in their daily lives. Some of the examples are: waiting for your kids at the school gate in order to pick them up, waiting for your kids to get ready for the school, waiting for your kids to finish home work and so on. First, digest the fact that waiting is inevitable and find some interesting activity to pass the time when you are waiting. This will help in staying away from boredom when you are waiting. Waiting will no longer be a pain anymore. This is one of the ways to be a good parent.

Prioritise
This is one of the qualities of a good parent. If you don't know your priorities in your schedule you are almost blind. This will lead to mismanagement of time and that will make you scream at the end when things are not in place. If you wish to look and feel like a patient parent, proper planning as well as implementation is important. Before doing or planning any activity, ask yourself a hundred times 'is this important or unimportant? This question is enough to help you prioritise.

Maintain Buffer
Ensure that you will have enough time in hand. You can do this by keeping your kids on toes in all activities and getting things done beforehand. This will let you breathe easy and you won't have to be stressed out or anxious. For example, if you have to go out at 9 am, tell your kids that you need to get ready by 8 am. This gives you one hour buffer.

Story first published: Friday, February 27, 2015, 16:15 [IST]
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