Be a Stewardship Parent, Not an Ownership Parent
Weekly Parenting Tip If we think of our children as our possessions, we respect them too little! If our paradigm is “I made them so I own them and can try to make them into what I want them to be,” we will fail as parents and will feel a lot of frustration while we are failing. We don’t...
Be a Serendipity Parent, Not a Controlling Parent
Weekly Parenting Tip Controlling parents try to manage all of their children’s actions, thoughts, ambitions, and behavior, to make their decisions for them, and to turn them into their version of what they should be. They often lose their kids or force them to rebel. Serendipity parents...