Slow Parenting - Freeing Up Family Time and Eradicating Parenting Stress

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Life whizzes past ultra quick and within no time, especially when it relates to a busy family. Parents and children, in today's busy world, may not provide that elusive time, when they can be together and enjoying the magic of living. The complaint everyone makes today is that “they simply do not have any time left.” Family life becomes mechanical, while the elusive emotional link that binds the family is fading away too soon.

The best antidote for “ultra-quick parenting” is “slow-parenting” when parents take their calibrated and well-measured time to raise their family. Children are allowed to make their own decision, while parents help them make those without losing the sense of discipline. It is just like “going slow”, all the while guiding young and old children to become more effective and intelligent.

Slow parenting is a buzz word that helps parents free up their worries, tension and emotional strain. In the process, every member of the family will develop a sense of independent thinking and assume their responsibility of becoming a good parent or wise and intelligent children. All the best.

Thought for today:
"At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents." - Jane D. Hull

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Slow Parenting - Leisurely, yet Effective and Productive!
Slow parenting allows both parents and children to find their own time to develop personalities and persona, and at a steady and slow pace. It is a combination of new ideas too. Read the article to learn more.

Slow Parenting Teens: How to Create a Positive, Respectful, and Fun Relationship with Your Teenager
By Molly Wingate and Marti Woodward

Slow Parenting Teens provides a news flash to parents: If your relationship with your teen isn't what you want--YOU can change it. The five "slow" attitudes in this book will help you face your own fears and create a positive, respectful, and fun parenting relationship with your teenager.

Believe it or not, your teenagers want a close relationship with you as much, or more, as you want the same thing with them. They lean into your acceptance, approval, and attention. They pull away from your correction, judgment, and lectures. That's why Slow Parenting Teens is the parenting book recommended by teenagers: You can change your family dynamics, and this book shows you the way.

Fed Up with Frenzy: Slow Parenting in a Fast-Moving World
By Susan Sachs Lipman

The hectic pace of everyday life can keep families constantly on the go, but removing some of the frenzy is easy—if you just take a moment to slow down. Hit the pause button on all of life's daily distractions and reconnect with your family in familiar and exciting ways.

Parenting and family expert Susan Sachs Lipman shows you the enormous benefits of having a slower paced, more connected family. Packed with simple, affordable, and delightful games, crafts, and activities, Fed Up with Frenzy will help you spend more distraction—free time with your children.

Spanking the gray matter out of our kids
CNN July 23, 2014

How to discipline the next generation is a hotly debated topic. In 2012, a national survey showed more than half of women and three-quarters of men in the United States believe a child sometimes needs a "good hard spanking."

How 'Good Mothering' Hardwires a Child's Brain: Mom Impacts Her Babies
Science World Report July 18, 2014

Could having a good mother impact a child's brain? That just may be the case, according to a new study. Researchers have taken a look at rat pups and have found that their mothers and their nurturing roles directly mold the early neural activity and growth of their offspring's brains.

Babble to your baby from birth! Cooing at newborns is vital to speech development
The Daily Mail July 14, 2014

Cooing at a newborn baby is not just a sign of affection - scientists think it is vital part of teaching them to speak.

Limit Use Of Electronic Devices By Children
Courrant July 15, 2014

With the use of electronic devices being a huge part of our everyday lives, many teachers, parents and caregivers fail to recognize the profound danger these devices can be imposing upon our developing children.

Must-have parenting hacks for raising young children
Great Falls Tribune July 26, 2014

Before having children, people warned us about many aspects of parenthood: laundry piles the size of Texas, how sleep is craved so deeply you can taste it and that there was a new-fangled torture device called "walking on Legos."

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