SMART PARENTS

Parenting Styles — How to Stop Fighting and Start Working Together

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Do you ever wonder how your parenting style turned from “parent team” into “parent competition?”

How do you come to a decision, preferably without arguing,definetly in front of your children, and both feel validated and empowered ? It comes down to parenting battles.

Lets become a parenting team. It’s time for you and wife to get on the same page.

You can turn your parenting conflicts into parenting successes with a little bit of work, it may be more fun than you think.

Exercises for Building the Parenting Team:

For each example, write down each parent’s “default mode” of parenting.

What is your default parenting style?

Next, have each parent examine his or her default style. How each of your relationships with your parents molded you as a parent and look at how you were parented.

Look at how the ways you were parented played into the interaction and your default parenting style.There are good techniques and unhealthy patterns, there is no right or wrong way to parent.

Take the movie example: Once dad realizes that he’s bringing forward a parenting pattern, he can decide whether it really works for him or not. We have the choice to let them go or to continue with the pattern, when we find unconscious parenting patterns

Is does this pattern work for my child?

Mom realizes that bringing forward the pattern of a lack of discipline might not work for this child, at the same time but your children have lots of friends, hopefully friends of all ages, remember it.