Sharing The Best Resources & Tools

CAROLE AND NADIM SAAD, CO-FOUNDERS OF BEST OF PARENTING

As the parents of three children, struggling like so many others to find a balanced and effective parenting style, we turned away from all the parenting fads and studied the hard scientific evidence on what really works. The techniques we learnt were so life changing, yet so straightforward, that we made it our mission to convert them into powerful step by step tools and make them available to parents world over. Read more about the philosophy behind Best of Parenting.

Sharing The Best Resources & Tools

CAROLE AND NADIM SAAD, CO-FOUNDERS OF BEST OF PARENTING

As the parents of three children, struggling like so many others to find a balanced and effective parenting style, we turned away from all the parenting fads and studied the hard scientific evidence on what really works. The techniques we learnt were so life changing, yet so straightforward, that we made it our mission to convert them into powerful step by step tools and make them available to parents world over. Read more about the philosophy behind Best of Parenting.

Parenting tip – How to respond when your kids keep asking ‘Why’

December 1st, 2013 | 3 to 6 years | Short Tips and Quotes | Parenting tips

It’s very common for young children to go through a phase where they ask constant questions about everything, and any parent who’s already experienced this can testify to how challenging this can sometimes be! We may be feeling exhausted after a busy day at work and quite often we simply don’t really know how to answer our child’s questions.

However, asking questions in this way is a healthy sign of your child’s development. It shows that they are becoming more interested in the world around them and it is important not to stifle this curiosity. The trick is to ‘fend’ the times where your child is simply asking for attention or something that they shouldn’t be having and make sure you use the other times as opportunities for learning. So next time your child starts sentence with “Why…?”, you can approach in one of two ways:

  1. Use it as an opportunity to teach children problem-solving skills by showing them age-appropriate ways of finding the answers to their questions themselves. As they grow older, this would include buying them an encyclopaedia and teaching them how to use it, or introducing them to an educational television programme that could help to answer their questions. If you do not have the time to answer (or simply don’t know the answer!), you can tell your child: “I will answer your question as soon as I finish what I am doing”.
  2. If your child is simply seeking attention by repeating the same question again and again or asking questions such as “Why can’t have an ice cream before dinner?” in response you can ask them back “Why do you think?”. This encourages our children into ‘thinking’ mode rather than ‘opposition’ mode so they are far more likely to stop asking or to answer the question for themselves, which in this case would be “Because I’ll be too full and won’t want to eat my dinner.”  

Inspirational Quote:

‘There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.’ –  John Locke

These are just a few examples of our Best of Parenting Tools. You can find more ideas and solutions to typical parenting challenges in our book ‘Kids Don’t Come With a Manual – The Essential Guide to a Happy Family Life‘. 

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Parenting tip – How to respond when your kids keep asking ‘Why’

December 1st, 2013 | 3 to 6 years | Parenting tips

It’s very common for young children to go through a phase where they ask constant questions about everything, and any parent who’s already experienced this can testify to how challenging this can sometimes be! We may be feeling exhausted after a busy day at work and quite often we simply don’t really know how to answer our child’s questions.

However, asking questions in this way is a healthy sign of your child’s development. It shows that they are becoming more interested in the world around them and it is important not to stifle this curiosity. The trick is to ‘fend’ the times where your child is simply asking for attention or something that they shouldn’t be having and make sure you use the other times as opportunities for learning. So next time your child starts sentence with “Why…?”, you can approach in one of two ways:

  1. Use it as an opportunity to teach children problem-solving skills by showing them age-appropriate ways of finding the answers to their questions themselves. As they grow older, this would include buying them an encyclopaedia and teaching them how to use it, or introducing them to an educational television programme that could help to answer their questions. If you do not have the time to answer (or simply don’t know the answer!), you can tell your child: “I will answer your question as soon as I finish what I am doing”.
  2. If your child is simply seeking attention by repeating the same question again and again or asking questions such as “Why can’t have an ice cream before dinner?” in response you can ask them back “Why do you think?”. This encourages our children into ‘thinking’ mode rather than ‘opposition’ mode so they are far more likely to stop asking or to answer the question for themselves, which in this case would be “Because I’ll be too full and won’t want to eat my dinner.”  

Inspirational Quote:

‘There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.’ –  John Locke

These are just a few examples of our Best of Parenting Tools. You can find more ideas and solutions to typical parenting challenges in our book ‘Kids Don’t Come With a Manual – The Essential Guide to a Happy Family Life‘. 

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Parenting tip – How to respond when your kids keep asking ‘Why’

December 1st, 2013 | 3 to 6 years | Short Tips and Quotes | Parenting tips

It’s very common for young children to go through a phase where they ask constant questions about everything, and any parent who’s already experienced this can testify to how challenging this can sometimes be! We may be feeling exhausted after a busy day at work and quite often we simply don’t really know how to answer our child’s questions.

However, asking questions in this way is a healthy sign of your child’s development. It shows that they are becoming more interested in the world around them and it is important not to stifle this curiosity. The trick is to ‘fend’ the times where your child is simply asking for attention or something that they shouldn’t be having and make sure you use the other times as opportunities for learning. So next time your child starts sentence with “Why…?”, you can approach in one of two ways:

  1. Use it as an opportunity to teach children problem-solving skills by showing them age-appropriate ways of finding the answers to their questions themselves. As they grow older, this would include buying them an encyclopaedia and teaching them how to use it, or introducing them to an educational television programme that could help to answer their questions. If you do not have the time to answer (or simply don’t know the answer!), you can tell your child: “I will answer your question as soon as I finish what I am doing”.
  2. If your child is simply seeking attention by repeating the same question again and again or asking questions such as “Why can’t have an ice cream before dinner?” in response you can ask them back “Why do you think?”. This encourages our children into ‘thinking’ mode rather than ‘opposition’ mode so they are far more likely to stop asking or to answer the question for themselves, which in this case would be “Because I’ll be too full and won’t want to eat my dinner.”  

Inspirational Quote:

‘There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.’ –  John Locke

These are just a few examples of our Best of Parenting Tools. You can find more ideas and solutions to typical parenting challenges in our book ‘Kids Don’t Come With a Manual – The Essential Guide to a Happy Family Life‘. 

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