Parents learn how Social Education & Character Education can be Disguised as Fun and Games!

Failure and persistence breed resilience.
If you practice getting everything you want immediately you get good at being entitled.
Whatever you practice you get good at. If you practice waiting you get good patience. if you practice not getting what you want, you get good at coping with disappointment.
It os your responsibility as a parent to impose your values on your children. Tehy can reject or accept them as adults.
See your children as they are and accept them for who they are. Then set expectations and limits so they can be best that they are.
Just the presence of a screen interferes with attantion to the people around you.
Everyone get your face out of a screen and look at each other.
Don`t find time to have fun with your children. You are going yo have to make the time!
Have regular family meetings to have fun, take care of organizational talks, practice listening and talking skills and sometime solve problems.
Disappointment is the most devastating emotion a parent can express to a child. It only hurt and discouraging the child.
Parents experience worry about their children more than any other emotion. Try to be in touch with their worry even though it hurts to worry. Then react with worry rather than anger.
The more an adult talks, the less a child listens. The more an adult listens, the more a child listens.
Teach yourself and your children to belannce between short and long term goals (I want to play now and I want good grades later)
Feelings (both good and bad) can interfere with getting what you really want.
Assign a chore to let your child feel like a capable, contributing member of the family.
Let your child solve simple problems. Don`t cheat your kids of the chance to experience success.
Expect more - Raise the bar and your child will probably stretch to meet it.
Practice deep breathing. This can help you stay calm throughout the day, and make it easier when you really need to breathe to get back in control.
Try to see things from your child’s perspective before you decide what to do.
Conceptualize your goal before you act.
Hug your child everyday
Stop and think before you say ‘‘no‘‘!
Treat your children equally, not identically, enhance their uniqueness
We always make mistakes, especially when we try to do our best.
If you debate between folding the laundry or going to sleep - go to sleep. A wrinkled shirt is clean; a wrinkled mom is mean...
Compliment your child on what he does not on who he is.
Do not confuse disappointment with anger. Disappointment is not getting what you want. Anger is when someone hurts you. People may disappoint you without an intention to hurt you.
What makes people truly happy are successful, meaningful work and close, rewarding social relationships.
If you want to change your feelings, you have to change your behavior first. First you do something, then you feel better; if you wait to feel better before you do it, you probably never will.
The secret to success in any relationship is communication. As simple as that sounds, it is very difficult and complex to actually do.
When people react impulsively to a negative emotion, they often end up making things worse.
The thing that makes parenting so difficult is that parents love their children. This often causes them to react emotionally rather than rationally.
When a parent react impulsively to his child`s negative emotion, he often end up making things worse.
The more you try to avoid something, the more you obsess over it
Before you get out of bed in the morning, think about something you are looking forward to (even if it is getting back into bed that night).
When children are upset, start with empathy, not reason
Sacrificing your happiness for your children’s happiness tends to make everyone unhappy
The more you talk to children, the less they listen. The more children talk to you, the more they listen
Learning to delay gratification usually leads to greater gratification in the long run.
When children are yelled at, they don`t feel loved
When problem solving, think of something to do, then think of something else, then think of something else…
If you are parenting in a way that is not working, do something else, almost anything else
Fun is the basis of any loving relationship. It is hard to feel love without fun at least some of the time
Children learn from the way their parents model feelings
Anger is often not really anger; it can be intense frustration, disappointment, or worry
When frustrated, keep trying, take a short break, or ask for help. This is true for both children and parents
Children need to practice being disappointed in order to learn how to cope with it
Treat your children equally, not identically, enhance their uniqueness
Compliment your child on what he does not on who he is
Daily chores; a great way to enhance your child’s self-esteem, sense of responsibility, empathy and delay of gratification. In short, how to become a happy individual.
Dance with your kids, sing with them
Family Dinner: talk about everything ... except food!
When children are upset, start with empathy, not reason
Laughter, a great way to lay down the rules. If you can laugh about it...
Life change should be gradual, you learn as you go along
The three rules of parenting are: patience, patience, patience.
Any behavior change takes a lot of practice, especially social behavior.