Nurture Growth and Change

Nurture Growth and Change
When your child is a newborn, it may be difficult for you to imagine him ever growing up, and yet your main purpose as a parent is to encourage, guide and support his growth.

He depends on you to provide the food, protection and health care his body needs to grow properly, as well as the guidance his mind and spirit need to make him a healthy, mature individual.

Instead of resisting change in your child, your job is to welcome and nurture it.

Guiding your child’s grow involves a significant amount of discipline, both for you and for your child. As she becomes increasingly independent, he needs rules and guidelines to help him his limits and move beyond them.

You need to provide this framework for him, establishing rules that are appropriate for each stage of development and adjusting them as your child changes so they encourage growth instead of stifling it.

Confusion and conflict do not help your child to mature. Consistency does. Make sure that everyone who cares for him understands and agrees on the way he is being raised and the rules he’s expected to follow.

Establish policies for all his care givers to observe when he misbehaves, and adjust these polices along with the rules as he becomes more responsible.

Another way you nurture your child’s growth is by teaching him adapt to changes around him. You can help him with this lesson by coping smoothly with change your self and by preparing him for major changes within family.

A new baby, death or illness of a family member, a new job for a parent, unemployment, and chronic illness all deeply affect you child as well as you.

If the family faces these challenges as a mutually supportive unit, your child will feel, secure in accepting change and adjusting to it.

By being open and honest with him, you can help him meet these challenges and grow through them.
Nurture Growth and Change