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.

Joy – the most important gift that we can give our children

February 6th, 2015 | Article | 3 to 6 years | Awareness

There is so much focus nowadays, not on who we are, but on what we do. One of the most common ‘ice breakers’ between adults is still, “So, what do you do for a living?” Whilst this isn’t inherently a bad thing, what it does mean is that with so much focus on where we live, what we own and what we do, we lose sight of one of the most important elements of life – joy.

Children tend to model the behaviour of their parents, whether that behaviour be good or bad. So, if you’ve somehow ‘gone off track’ and lost the joy in your life, chances are that your children will assume that this is normal and follow suit themselves. After all, a parent cannot give their child something that they don’t have themselves.

No parent wants to raise a joyless child who doesn’t know the simple pleasure of just being. Well, we found this compelling article from Psychology Today that shares a few simple ways that you can embrace fun, start living a more joyful and fulfilling life, and share that joy with your children. These are just a few of the recommendations from the article so we recommend that you read it in full:

– Make a commitment to do one spontaneous and fun activity each day, and stick to it.

– Learn to laugh; laughter is scientifically proven to boost mood and stimulate endorphins in the brain, so laugh much and laugh often.

– Free play allows you all to get silly together, and teaches both you and your children how to simply ‘let go’ and enjoy the moment.

– Don’t make your kids stick to too strict a schedule. Much of life’s joy comes from spontaneity and unexpectedness – be careful not to schedule the fun out of your daily routine.

 

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Joy – the most important gift that we can give our children

February 6th, 2015 | Article | 3 to 6 years | Awareness

There is so much focus nowadays, not on who we are, but on what we do. One of the most common ‘ice breakers’ between adults is still, “So, what do you do for a living?” Whilst this isn’t inherently a bad thing, what it does mean is that with so much focus on where we live, what we own and what we do, we lose sight of one of the most important elements of life – joy.

Children tend to model the behaviour of their parents, whether that behaviour be good or bad. So, if you’ve somehow ‘gone off track’ and lost the joy in your life, chances are that your children will assume that this is normal and follow suit themselves. After all, a parent cannot give their child something that they don’t have themselves.

No parent wants to raise a joyless child who doesn’t know the simple pleasure of just being. Well, we found this compelling article from Psychology Today that shares a few simple ways that you can embrace fun, start living a more joyful and fulfilling life, and share that joy with your children. These are just a few of the recommendations from the article so we recommend that you read it in full:

– Make a commitment to do one spontaneous and fun activity each day, and stick to it.

– Learn to laugh; laughter is scientifically proven to boost mood and stimulate endorphins in the brain, so laugh much and laugh often.

– Free play allows you all to get silly together, and teaches both you and your children how to simply ‘let go’ and enjoy the moment.

– Don’t make your kids stick to too strict a schedule. Much of life’s joy comes from spontaneity and unexpectedness – be careful not to schedule the fun out of your daily routine.

 

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Joy – the most important gift that we can give our children

February 6th, 2015 | Article | 3 to 6 years | Awareness

There is so much focus nowadays, not on who we are, but on what we do. One of the most common ‘ice breakers’ between adults is still, “So, what do you do for a living?” Whilst this isn’t inherently a bad thing, what it does mean is that with so much focus on where we live, what we own and what we do, we lose sight of one of the most important elements of life – joy.

Children tend to model the behaviour of their parents, whether that behaviour be good or bad. So, if you’ve somehow ‘gone off track’ and lost the joy in your life, chances are that your children will assume that this is normal and follow suit themselves. After all, a parent cannot give their child something that they don’t have themselves.

No parent wants to raise a joyless child who doesn’t know the simple pleasure of just being. Well, we found this compelling article from Psychology Today that shares a few simple ways that you can embrace fun, start living a more joyful and fulfilling life, and share that joy with your children. These are just a few of the recommendations from the article so we recommend that you read it in full:

– Make a commitment to do one spontaneous and fun activity each day, and stick to it.

– Learn to laugh; laughter is scientifically proven to boost mood and stimulate endorphins in the brain, so laugh much and laugh often.

– Free play allows you all to get silly together, and teaches both you and your children how to simply ‘let go’ and enjoy the moment.

– Don’t make your kids stick to too strict a schedule. Much of life’s joy comes from spontaneity and unexpectedness – be careful not to schedule the fun out of your daily routine.

 

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