9 Tips To Scientifically Raise Happy Kids

There are various ways to raise happy and well adjusted children; I present here a few research-based tips for good parenting.

Tips to scientifically raise happy children: 

1) Joking helps: Joke with your toddler to set the base for social success; joking and pretending provides the base for the toddler to think creatively, make friends and manage stress.

2) Be positive: Negative emotions expressed by parents’ sets the base to build aggressive kindergarteners, leading to aggression in later life towards ones romantic partners also. It lies in the hands of responsible parents to be positive and break the cycle of angry parent, angry baby, angrier parent that could lead to problems in the long run. 

3) Let go: It is best to let go off children once they fly off the nest without being hovering, interfering and helicopter parents; your children would only be anxious, self-conscious and less open to new ideas. You should let go and allow your children to set up their own life, but at the same time not kick your offspring to the curb at 18.

4) Foster self-compassion: Self-compassion is a very important life skill that helps people be resilient in the face of challenges; this skill is made up of mindfulness, the ability to manage thoughts and emotions without being carried away or repressing them, common humanity, or empathy with the suffering of others, and self-kindness, a recognition of your own suffering and a commitment to solving the problem. This will help set a good example for kids too.

5) Tend to your mental health: Depressed mothers struggle at parenting and their negative parenting styles contribute to their children’s stress. It is best for mothers to get help for their own sake and for the sake of the child, because kids raised by these mothers are more easily stressed out by the preschool years. However it has been found that positive parenting can be taught even when mom or dad is struggling with their own mental health.

6) Mothers need to be good to their sons: It has been found that a warm attached relationship between a son and a mother helps prevent behavioral problems as he goes out into the wider world. This makes for better romance later in life as young adults. This mother-son relationship is very important as parents are the best role models.

7) Don't aim for perfection: New parents are highly stressed up and less confident of their parenting skill when they believe that the society expects perfection; you could be a more relaxed and good parent when you make an effort to ignore this pressure.

8) Nurture your marriage: Do not let your relationship with your spouse fall apart when the baby is born; parents contemplating divorce set their infants up for sleep problems as a toddler. It is observed that most troubled houses are stressful houses, and that stress is the cause of the sleep problems.

9) Lastly know your children: Tailor your parenting style to the personality of your children; your child will be then less prone to anxiety and depression. Avoid hovering, but make sure you help your child who needs help in regulating their emotions. Respect your child’s cue and step in when the need arises.

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