13 Things Mentally Strong Parents Don't Do
- Promote responsibility and perseverance over a victim mentality
- Don't parent with a strategy of avoidance. Instead, teach you kids healthy ways to deal with guilt and fear
- Set strong boundaries so your child doesn't think the world revolves around her or that she holds power over you
- Don't expect perfection or intervene every time your child makes a mistake
- Try to resolve his own conflicts in the playground
- Mentally strong parents don't shelter their child from pain
- Don't prevent your children from experiencing the whole spectrum of human emotions
- Let them have boredom, sadness
- Mentally strong parents understand the difference between discipline and punishment
- Mentally strong parents make sure their actions match their values
- Actionable advice
- Teach children how to change the channel
- Think about white bears for 30 sec
- Don't think about white bears for 30 sec (fail)
- Do engaging task (sorting a deck of cards) for 30 sec
- He would not have thought of white bear
- Changing your behavior can change his thoughts