Positive Parenting Blog

How To Be a Good Parent How Do You Know If You're Engaging In Good Parenting? This question of ‘good parenting’ is a common one every parent asks themselves from time to time. As a parent of a child (of any age), you can quickly begin to doubt your parenting skills when you hear the latest parenting news that contradicts what you thought you were doing well. For instance, your parents were most likely taught to sleep a new baby on it’s tummy. However we now know this is dangerous and SIDS advice is to sleep a baby on it’s back to avoid the potential for sudden infant cot death. So how do you know if you’re doing a good job? Besides the basics of ensuring your child is safe, secure, healthy and happy, there is one key ingredient to effective parenting The No.1 Thing All Parenting Should Know Is How To Parenting With Consistency (including learning from mistakes & starting again) Consistency has two elements: Being consistent with your parenting approach Tweaking things when you...