Proactive or Reactive?

We are brought up in a world of reaction. To be proactive takes time and work, it doesn't just happen, you put things in place to make it happen. I like to look at parenting like this.

I would like to start this first blog with a little history about my husband and myself. A couple of years after we were married, before we had children, we decided to start attending parenting courses. We wanted to be the most prepared and as equipped as possibly could to be the best parents as we could (and we do have the most amazing kids, definitely far from perfect but still amazing). Some people thought we were a bit nuts but we had a plan in mind..... to be proactive.

We did this with every new stage of our kids lives. We have tried to bring being proactive into every facet of our lives (like our marriage etc.). As I said before it takes time, especially when you are trying to train a toddler to share, to train a child to think other than self, to respect other peoples property when we walked into other peoples houses. We did all of this through proactive play, and not just for our eldest one, thinking it would filter down to the other two but to individually train each one from the source (us as parents) so there is no confusion in the message that is given to each one.

Our goal, and I hope yours too, is not to have good kids but to have great and responsible adults who have the skills to make educated and wise decisions as they go through the journey of life. So I ask you to think of this week creative ways that you can proactively parent so you can set your child and family for enjoyable life together.

If you have any creative ways you that you have found successful please share them with me and those who follow...... we all have different parenting styles and different approaches to suit our kids and our value systems, you may be able to help someone today with your kind advice.
 
Blessings Peta