# Warm greetings everyone ❤️❤️.
As parents we always present love first to our children because we see love ❤️ as the greatest bond when it comes to the care we give to family and others, but when it comes to taking measures and setting boundaries towards our children, it becomes challenging sometimes due to how each an everyone of us has their perspectives to discipline .
Sometimes we see kids as individuals without knowledge of their own, who appears so innocent inside and outside and can make mistakes, this normally is during tender age which is why some parents stays friendly with their children, trying to only caution ⛔️ them mildly in the things they do or say wrongly. This very period in their lives is very important to parents as it’s during this time we pay attention to know who our kids are. At this very stage, the kids needs positivity from parents not harshness.
As a parent I learnt to be friendly with my children at a very tender age, not being too harsh and strict, but making them know and understand what is wrong in manners while scolding them. Its so challenging to be parents because we have this dream of bringing up our children in the best way that we feel could help them in the future, putting so much efforts both in their education, health issues and wellbeing. It’s important at this stage to carry them along in all that we do, letting them know the realities of life as this will give them some focus.
Parents also go through so much emotional stress once their children starts misbehaving, so its very important we create an early bond with them as this will always give them the confidence boost they need to always relate with their parents as they are growing into adulthood, and not just being harsh and so strict in disciplinary actions which always creates fear 😨 and inner anxiety 😥 that pushes them away from us to other people or bad influences as they journey in life, and sometimes can make them weak to challenges.
Parenting comes with huge responsibilities because our children will always look up to us, so we need to impact the best we could in them hoping they will always appreciate every footsteps towards their adulthood during which they began to know how hard we have worked to bring them up. And bringing them up to be good children is not always only by disciplining them harshly, although sometimes we go hard on them due to tension and emotions but we have to always know that staying friendly with our children brings out the best in them as they tend to trust us and discuss openly with us which gives room for correction .
However, I usually shout at my children when they do something that annoys me but will never spank them as they were growing up, but with time I learnt it’s important to explain things to them especially when it involves what will affect their lives. But once they entered adulthood, they began to understand the need to follow laid down rules which helped everyone to understand what boundaries were made for. For me shouting was not the best way out since children will always learn as they grow as far as their parents are responsible parents.
This is my response to the #hivelearners featured content for week 158, edition 01, tagged “THIS IS DISCIPLINE”.
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