Best Way to Nurture the Best in Your Child

By RL

Most parents want to raise their kids to be somebody. But some parent has a bad case of “right intention, wrong direction”. We may try to achieve ends through negative means: We criticize, push and nag our child about their weaknesses and how they’re falling short of the mark and hoping that they will change.

Are you so busy raising your child to be the person society says they should be that you are not allowing them to grow into the person they actually are??

Every child is different in this world. The good news is that, there is no other children that can be like your child. As a parent instead of focusing on our child weakness, we should focus on their strength. Strength based parenting is a powerful way to help us notice our child’s strength and then find natural opportunity for those strength to be developed-even as part of disciplining our child.

Research has discovered that every child has the capacity to express 24 character strengths such as curiosity, perseverance, teamwork and creativity. The way your child expresses their unique profile of strength will be unique to him/her.

The key to becoming a strength based parents is to form the habit of swapping question “What needs to be fixed?” with what strengths are needed to handle this situation?

Best of all, you can start today by noticing a strength in your child and having a conversation about it.

- Asking your child which of her strengths she might use to solve a problem she’s facing.

- Letting your child know you appreciate how his strengths help the family

- Doing exercise together by naming 3 things that went well for your child today

Strength awareness benefits your child in 4 ways:-

1. It helps kids reach their full potential

2. It build kids well being

3. Kids improve faster when working on strengths

4. It fosters a better parent – child connection

“Parenting will be more easier when parent try to discover the child strength and not to change them..”