April 23, 2025 4 Key Qualities of Good Parents
“If your child feels loved, they feel safe. If your child feels loved, they can open up to you. If your child feels loved, they will be courageous in life because they know they have a cushion to fall back on. If there's one big gift we can give our children it is to know they are truly loved, no matter what.”
⁃ Carolina King
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Here are 4 Key Qualities of Good Parents.
Let's start with Patience.
Patience is an acknowledgment that our children will be works in progress for years, and that in their quest for understanding and knowledge, they will make mistakes and misjudgments of situations that we as adults would perhaps immediately recognize as fool-hearty. It is Patience that will remind us that much of learning comes through missteps. Some lessons they will learn from experience. Others, they will learn from us, their parents.
Another key quality would be Reverence.
Reverence for the sanctity of life should in, and of itself, bring us to understand our parental relationship with our children. Our mindset needs to be that of stewards of, not owners of our children. A nurturing sense of curiosity about how to develop the talents and inclinations their activities reveal to us, should be our guiding lights, our North star.
Next, let's touch on Foresight as a parental quality. The application of Foresight might be trying to anticipate the activities, and perhaps, educational pursuits we should emphasize, to foster maximum development of their natural inclinations. We should, as well, be educating ourselves as to the requirements necessary for success in their desired or at least apparent field. Too many children have missed opportunities because their parents were not aware of the steps needed to prepare them for their potential opportunities.
The fourth key parenting quality for today's muse is Self-respect.
The attribute of Self-respect will allow us, to allow ourselves to make mistakes. As parents we need to acknowledge to ourselves that we are not, nor could we ever be, perfect parents. It's also through self-respect that we can respect our children and understand that we are their mentors, their coaches and not their friends nor their doormats. It is self-respect that prevents us from accepting disrespect from our children or anybody else. Under no circumstance, should any serious parent accept disrespect from someone for whom we are providing everything.
Patience, Reverence, Foresight and Self-respect, four very important qualities of good parents.
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