Five Most Common Single Parenting Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

If you are like most parents, raising children and finding time for yourself can be a challenge. 

Discipline and love in equal amounts are essential in raising children. 

And, for single parents the challenge is for you to find the time to dose it out equally to your only child or to your several children. Indeed, to discipline is to show your love. 

An undisciplined child is an unloved child and one who is unprepared to deal with the real world and the situations he will be faced with. Don't let your child down.

Now, here are the 5 Most Common Mistakes many parents make in child raising and how to avoid it:

1. Not Setting Appropriate Limits
Clear, consistent limits teach children to control themselves; to know what is right and wrong; and, to know what is acceptable behavior.

2. Not Following through on Rules and Discipline
The consequences of not following through on rules and discipline are usually similar to not setting appropriate limits.

3. Constantly Criticizing your Child
Instead of criticizing your child, a better way would be to show him support and love, enhancing his self image, and have him to be surer of himself.

4. Trying to Substantially Change your Child’s Personality
The impulse to change your child to your liking is particularly strong, especially if you see them imitating something in you that you are not at all proud of. Often continuing an effort to change your child would have the reverse effect. 

He will often feel worse about himself about not being able to change and resents not being accepted as he is.

5. Fostering Dependency Long After It’s Realistic
Successful parenting ideally prepares children to make their way in the world as well as they can. If your child efforts at independence are thwarted in any way, they will have much more difficulty in establishing an independent existence.


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