Innovative Parenting: Simple Tips for Raising Awesome Kids

By Judi Holdeman

The tips for raising kids in Artful Parenting are for use by parents who . . . Want to have happy, well-adjusted kids. desire to raise their children in a more positive and nurturing environment than they may have experienced in their own childhood. Want to be in charge of their children in a responsible and loving way and not have their kids be

• Language: English
• Publisher: Westwood Books Publishing
• Release date: Jun 14, 2018
• ISBN: 9781643610283

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Copyright © 2018 by Judi Holdeman.

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Peace on earth will come when all children

are raised with love and respect.

Contents

Introduction

Love and Respect

Baby is Crying

A Positive Environment

Positive Attention

Kid Speak

Interrupting

Never Say No

Ignore Negative Behavior

Touching Everything!

The Wonderful Twos

Giving Kids Choices

Discipline

Protecting Your Child

Keeping Your Kid Honest

Time to Get Up

Sharing and Taking Turns

Quality Time

Perfect Parenting

List of Parenting Tools Needed

P.S. Adding a Kid

Introduction

Why did I choose this title for my book? In order to be the parents we want to be, we must be creative in ways that lead our children into a life of self-confidence and happiness, no matter how we might have been raised. When they are acting out is the moment in which we can choose to be inventive in our parenting. This is the time to pause for a moment and consider what effect our actions will have on our child and our relationship with them. It is important to act instead of react to their behavior. The tips in Innovative Parenting are for those times when you are wondering, How can I lovingly guide my child? This book has been written as a reference book, until the time a parent has learned to be on automatic regarding their positive parenting skills.

By the age of twenty-three, I had three children, a husband who did not know how to show his love to any of us, and I knew nothing about how to be a nurturing parent. I was raised in a dysfunctional home, was too young emotionally to be a mother, thought mostly of myself and my sorrows, and could not think of anything for which I was grateful, although I did have three beautiful babies.

When I was forty, I had the opportunity to become a mother for the fourth time. I made a commitment to myself and my unborn child that I would be a good parent. Over the years, I had observed all kinds of parenting, including my own, and know that using the tips in this little book can produce a child who becomes a responsible, loving adult. Parents are the child’s first teachers; the child is the reflection of the parents. What a child learns in their formative years – mainly the first six years - lays the foundation for all that is to come.

The deep desires of our hearts are always supported and, lo and behold, a parenting class was being offered in the small town in which I lived. I enrolled as soon as I heard about it. What I learned in this class was very different from the kind of parenting I had received from my parents and had provided for my first three children. I had to put aside all I thought I knew and start from scratch in order to