October 30, 2007
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Parenting
Lynn Spears – Britney’s Mom
It will focus “purely on her skills as a mom.”
Publishers Marketplace describes the book – set to go on sale in early 2008 – as “Lynne Spears’s personal story of raising high-profile children while coming from a low-profile Louisiana community.”(Britney has only recently allowed Lynne back into her troubled life after a lengthy period of estrangement.)
I’m looking forward to her book coming out.
What would you consider most important in parenting?
Comments (21)
Following the BIBLE’S advice!
Clintspirations is right on. I once had a plaque someone gave me that said, “I once had six theories on raising kids. Now I have six kids and no theories.”
Everything tempered with Christian love.
I’m looking for more specific answers.
Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
….and everything else just fell right into place!!! : )
Practise what you preach. Don’t live a double life.
I’m not a parent or anything. Not going to be one for a long time either, but I think it’s important for parents to listen what their child has to say, or listen to what they need, even if they don’t voice them out loud.
i think the best thing we can give kids is love and guidance.
I think that looking from the child’s viewpoint it really doesn’t matter to the child what the parent does but as long as the parent is there. I have seen this is pediatrics with so many children that they don’t care if mom is drunk or dad abuses them just so they say I’m here for you. They see the parents as sick but not as bad parents. We are the ones who judge the parents.
Example when the child would come into the dr. and looked like it just crawled out of the bin-I would get a paper towel and wash their face off infront of mom or dad and say ,”there,that is better now I can see your beautiful face.” Child would smile at mom and mom would smile back
I will have to come back when I stop laughing… unless it is supposed to be a handbook of what not to do…
what would i consider most important in parenting? unconditional love……
Unconditional love
Listening intently…to the unspoken words as well!
I’m not a parent. But if I was one.
What is important…
The love of God to bless them with through me
and the support that is need in during early childhood.
God Bless a mother and a father with child(ren).
The child(ren) belongs to God.
I pray that Parents are training and teaching their offsprings unto the LORD.
May the parents model for Jesus.
P.S. Thanks for the encouraging WORD.
I am THOUGHTFUL!
And I am having a blessed day!
May you do the same!
Peace to you,
~Suise :0)
RESPECT…………and the unconditional love thing too.
kids are like husbands, shower them with love but give them room to breathe as well BUT if that boundary is cross then they need to be grounded or take things they like away.
What is most important in parenting? It’s a balancing act – knowing when to stand firm because it is best for the child, and knowing when to give in and let the child take some risks in order to learn from experience. Second is knowing that we all make mistakes and will look back and wish we had handled something differently… and forgiving ourselves.
Though there are many, love, nurturing and security. If a child knows that you love them unconditionally they feel safe and secure.
teaching biblical principles along with remembering what it was like to actually be a kid.
living my life as I would like to see her live her’s … ie. leading by example and also, praying for my child.
Remembering all those things that when you were a child you swore you wouldn’t do to your own children.
Teaching children things are as they seem and that the existential realities of life won’t go away because of the pretty stories of Zeus, Ganesh, the Bible or anything else.
Showing love at all times in hugs and kisses (except for boys between 8 and 14 outside school, when a cool nod of acknowledge is the most public affection allowed).