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How Doing Less Made Me a Better Parent


How Doing Less Made Me a Better Parent

I'm a huge believer in being a hands-on, nurturing parent, and the younger kids are, the more they need our moment-to-moment care and assistance.

Be a Better Parent by Doing Less

The more I learn about raising my kids, the more I realize that doing LESS for them makes me a better parent. That's not to say we should neglect our children; ...

Minimalist Parenting: Doing More With Less - NPR

I'm Michel Martin and this is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. They say ... mom would regularly say to me, you know what? You need to go ...

Less really is more: How to parent like a minimalist - Motherly

Minimalism is more than just getting rid of all your stuff (although I am on that bandwagon too.) It's about filtering out the noise to focus your energy on ...

In Parenting, Less Can Be More | Psychology Today

Parents deep desire to help their children often leads them to do too much. From their children's social lives to their academic performance ...

Can Living in the Moment Make You a Better Parent? - Mindful.org

It can be hard to find the time to commit to changes we think are important, like making our own baby food or doing some sort of daily exercise.

What's a parenting thing where more is less? - Reddit

My kid "hears" what I do far better than what I say. It's made me a better human knowing he's watching and learning. Upvote 39. Downvote

How a Better Job Makes You a Better Parent (with less guilt) - LinkedIn

Let's get concrete. Let's say you decide that your most important work in life is parenting, so you turn your focus to making things better at ...

Time Will Make Us Better Parents. It's That Hard and That Easy.

As I write this, I have my laptop propped on the kitchen island while cooking breakfast. This is how inspiration hits me: my husband is roaming around the ...

How to Be a Better Parent Despite Our Many Flaws

Don't think for a moment I am discounting the wonders of parenthood, far from it. Having children melted my iceberg of a heart, connected me to true joyfulness ...

How to Be a Positive Parent Even if You Weren't Raised by One

My mom rarely spanked me, but in the infrequent times that she got really mad at me, she became cold and aloof. She more or less ignored me until I apologized.

Leaving Your Childhood Behind to Become a Better Parent

The reality is, there are countless methods of raising children, and many of them are perfectly healthy. Yet, no matter how many books we read, rules we make, ...

10 Ways to Be a Better Parent

Listen · Avoid Comparisons and Labels · Walk the Walk · Let Your Child Make Mistakes · Be Flexible · Ask Questions · Look Behind "Bad" Behavior.

10 Self-Care Tips for Moms With Little to No Support System

... had developed which made me feel important for constantly doing things for others. ... In a small way it made me feel like I was a better mother ...

How becoming a parent made me “better”—in totally unexpected ways

I'm (imperfectly) more productive. As my kids have gotten older and I see them losing their sh*t when they “mess up” a drawing or a note, I've ...

How parenting makes you more, and less productive ... - David Willans

Being a parent teaches you to match tasks to the energy you have for them — a creative or deep piece of work when you're well slept and more ...

Working Parent Stress? Try Doing More (not Less) - Anita Cleare

It's at those times when I am overcome with the drudgery of work-plus-parenting that I feel most stress. The sheer repetitiveness of it all wears me down and I ...

How to Be a Better Parent | Scientific American

I tell them that their children need to make an appointment to speak to me about it.” When parents do not adjust their involvement to a level ...

How Exercise Makes Me a Better Mom

For one thing, I'm less likely to come home from a workout and head straight for the ice cream. I'm “being good”—why break the streak? Plus, ...

This Parenting Book Actually Made Me a Better Parent

As March turned into April turned into June — as “you'll see your friends soon” became “at least ... My daughter is doing the hard work of growing ...