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For Family
Be a happy spouse!! How? Be a nice Wife
- Both husband and wife should love each other unconditionally. Be a good friend for him.
- Motivate your husband on his various achievements.
- You are in partnership with him to keep the spiritual life of your home alive, vibrant and example to follow. Failure in your spirituality will weaken the growth of your children morally.
- You should boldly take-up your stand and express your protest to your husband when he takes liquor and use cigarettes and any such evil practices.
- You should be a 100 percent believer of God and should keep God's values in life. Then only you can bear lasting fruits for your home husband and children.
- You should not give importance to anybody more than God and your children and husband.
- Try to learn from learned and experienced people, how to deal with the children in their different growing stages and implement it, so that your children will become God driven people and successful when they grow up.
Be a nice Husband
- Let me tell you, love your wife wholeheartedly and unconditionally. Be a good friend to her.
- Keep the mindset of a small child in front of your wife, in your personal moments.
- 'Give and Take' should be the principal when it comes to your expectations like respect, love and care from her.
- You should give prime importance and attention to your wife and should express your love towards her. That will make your married life meaningful.
- Spend at least half and hour with your wife alone if she is present with you. If she is away from your place try to write letters and communicate with her through telephone or email or chat, and share about the whole day's/week's events.
- Take her opinion on every family and other matters. While making decisions, you should make her feel that her opinion is also considered.
- Try to experience God through regular family prayers.
- Get away from liquor, cigarettes and such evil practices, lest your children also will learn and imitate you. Save money spent on these and go for an outing with your wife and children once in a year. Enjoy life in good spirits not by evil spirits, so that you will experience the real charm of family life.
Be role models to your children! You might be very much attentive to your children's physical and intellectual growth. But how much attentive are you towards their emotional growth? Here most of the parents fail... Will you? - Accept your child for what he is, not what you want him to be.
- Be consistent in your behaviour towards the child.
- Criticise the deed, never the does, that is the child.
- Do Activities together as a family.
- Encourage sibling harmony by not comparing them.
- Follow through if you make threats.
- Gifts can never be a substitute for your presence.
- Hitting teaches your child to hit others.
- Instill values in the child by being a role model.
- Joy of eating together at least one meal helps in bonding.
- Keep increasing freedom as your child becomes responsible.
- Love your child completely and unconditionally.
- Motivate your child with praise instead of criticism.
- Negotiating with your child is not a sign of weakness.
- Offer suggestions but let your child make the decision.
- Participate in events which are important for your child
- Quit labelling children as "naughty boy" or "clumsy girl".
- Restrict television, videos and computers games.
- Spend time with your child without diversions.
- Teach your child that choices have consequences.
- Use bedtime to discuss what happened during the day.
- Visualise what qualities you want in your child as an adult.
- Work out a routine and follow it through.
- Excite the child’s interest in books by providing material.
- Your child needs limits to make him/her feel secure.
- Zestful fun of the child’s short comings lowers his self esteem.
Courtesy Dr. Pervin Dadachanji, Consultant Psychiatrist
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