Parenting Tips

Your children learn how men should behave in relationships by watching you. Even if you do not live with their mother, they are keenly aware of the way you interact with her. Most divorce and domestic violence happens to men and women who grew up without a father modeling healthy relationship behavior. Here are 10 tips to help you model the way you want your daughter to be treated in her adult relationships, and the way you want your son to treat the woman he loves.
1. Value their mother: Children value themselves and others more when they feel that their mother and father value one another.
2. Perspective-taking (seeing things through someone else’s eyes): Show your children the importance of respecting the perspectives of people they love, even when they disagree with them.
3. Cooperation: Show how to participate willingly in work, problem-solving, or task-accomplishment.
4. Negotiation: Show your children how to work out solutions to problems that respect one another’s perspectives.
5. Resourcefulness: Never stop trying to make things better.
6. Motivation to improve: Approach disagreements with the attitude of making them better, not worse.
7. Compassion: This gut-level reaction to your wife’s pain, discomfort, or anxiety includes sympathy, protectiveness, and willingness to help but not control. It recognizes that your wife is different from you, with her own temperament, set of experiences, beliefs, values, and preferences.
8. Good will: Learning a positive attitude toward the people they love will greatly improve your children’s chances of having good relationships. Think good thoughts about your wife, and always give her the benefit of a doubt.
9. Affection: Showing affection toward their mother makes children feel more secure.
10. Relationship investment: Successful relationships require that people care about and occasionally do nice things for one another.

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Source: http://www.365articles.com

It’s easy to think that once your partner is pregnant that the bulk of your work is done until the baby is born. The truth is that your work is only just beginning.

There is a lot you can do to make things easier on your partner, and believe me, it’s the little things that count. A grand gesture from time to time is nice but what will really make things go smoother is trying to take care of the little things around the place.

For example, while she is having a shower in the morning and you are fixing yourself breakfast, make her a cup of her favourite tea. If you don’t know what that is, ask. A nice hot cup of tea sitting on the table waiting for her when she comes out to start her day gives an immediate boost and lets her know that you are thinking of her.

When it comes down to it, your partner really want to be reassured that you are thinking of her and the baby and that you care. A few simple things here and there make both of your lives easier.

I hope this helps,

Shane