Single Parents Guide to Children Developmental Stages

There’s one basic rule you should remember about developmental stages and charts that will save you countless hours of worry. The fact that your child passes through a particular developmental stage is always more important than the age in which your child does it. In the long run, it really doesn’t matter whether your child learns to walk at 10 months or 15 months – – as long as he learns how to walk. 

Your Child's Unique Inner Timetable 

Every child has an inner timetable for growth that’s unique to him. Growth is not a steady upward progression. Instead it is three steps forward, two back, a run around in circles, and often simply standing still before another leap forward.

Also, gaining a better understanding about how children’s minds work at different ages will allow you to make more sense of your child’s behaviors. This understanding can decrease your stress and increase your pleasure from being a parent. It lessens your frustrations that come from expecting things that a child simply cannot do and incorrectly interpreting your child’s behavior in adult terms.

Rapid Growth Can Also Be Hard on Your Child
As a parent, understand and accept your child’s more difficult stages as necessary times of growth for your child. Appreciate your fact that your child’s phases are not easy for him to live through either. Rapid growth times are hard on a child. Perhaps it is a small comfort to know that your child’s harder to-live-with stages do alternate with the calmer times, Count on getting periodic breaks.

Information about child development enhances your capacity to respond appropriately to your children. Informed parents are better equipped to problem solve, more confident in their decisions, and more likely to respond sensitively to their children’s developmental needs.

Children Allowed to Develop at their Own Speed will usually Win the Race of Life.


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Use Words that Encourage. Not, Words that Discourage

      To begin seeing the behavior you want from your children, you must consistently recognize and praise the behavior  that you want. 

Using words that encourage is an excellent way of doing so. Use words to encourage, not words to discourage and you will begin to experience amazing results. 

   Words That Encourage

·        Knowing you, I'm sure you will do fine.

·        You can do it if you try.

·        I have faith in. you.

·        You're doing fine.

·        I can see that you put a lot of effort into that.

·        You'll figure it out.

·        That was a good try.

·        Don't worry about the mistake.

·        That's a challenge, but I'm sure you'll do fine.

         Words That Discourage

·        Knowing you, I think you should do more.

·        You usually make mistakes, so be careful.

·        I doubt that you can do it.

·        You can do better.

·        That's a good job, but the corners are ragged.

·        Better get some help.

·        If you can't do it right, don't do it at all.

·        That looks too difficult for you to try.

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For Single Parents. Become Motivated - Take Action

Motivation is the force that leads people to take action. When you’re motivated, you do something. And that’s something that you do are tied to the pursuit of your goals. The goals that you choose and adopt reflect your feelings or emotional involvement with current circumstances and the hope that you can make things better for your self and your children.

Motivation comes from action that reflects your inner needs. You are motivated when you are dissatisfied and want to improve your situation.

Now, here are the three phrases of motivation;

1. Mapping Out Your Destination
On close examination, motivation flows through you in three phases. Consider the first phase as your goals.  Define your goals and your route plans – – your trip to your final destination. You need to evaluate and juggle information, sift through all the would-be objectives to determine which are the most beneficial; weigh all the potential risks; and, calculate all the possible outcomes until they lock in on the best goal under the circumstances.

2. Get Revved Up

Once you fix upon your goals or goal, you need to get revved up. You need to turn on the key, adjust the mirrors, and, third, hit the gas pedal. With the route map in hand and a full tank of gas, you need to hit the road.

3. Start Driving
Now, you will not be driving around aimlessly, you will be moving in a very specific, goal oriented direction. Moreover, when you form new goals, you begin a motivation cycle all over again. This can happen in a matter of seconds, over a long period of time, or anywhere in between. 

This mapping, revving up, and driving is the sequence that you have to go through no matter what goal you pursue and is fundamental for helping you to overcome setbacks.

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