Most of us spend a lot of time talking only about a few things with our children.

Often our relationships with our children center on control and correction.

1. "How can you be so dumb?"
2. "Why can't you do anything right?"
3. "Can't you think?"

Are control and correction always bad?

No. But when control and correction are all that a child gets from parents, the child may become discouraged or rebellious. Control and correction should not take over the relationship.

The Challenge of Being a Parent

Of all the jobs in the world, being a parent may be the trickiest. Children are often hard to understand. They seem impossible to control. They do not come with the Manual.

1. Building an Emotional Bank Account
2. Seek First to Understand
3. Getting the golden eggs - and preserving the goose
4. Teaching by modeling
5. He Just can not compete with you
6. The law of Love
7. "Look at my child-I am a failure!"

1. Build self-esteem.
2. Encourage primary greatness.
3. Encourage them to develop their own interests.
4. Try to create an enjoyable family culture.
5. Plan ahead.
6. Set an example of excellence.
7. Teach them to visualize to help them realize their own potential.
8. Adopt their friends.
9. Teach them to have faith, to believe and trust others, and to affirm, build, bless, and serve others.
10. Provide support, resources, and feedback.

1. Provide children with opportunities to play with peers
2. Take a problem-solving approach.
3. Play with children in a "peer- like' way, just for the sake of having fun
4. Talk with children about social relationships and values.
5. Endorse positive, relevant strategies
6. Reflect a positive, resilient attitude toward social setbacks.
7. Intervene when necessary, but let older preschoolers work out problems themselves when       possible.

To summaries, recommendations could focus on any of three different areas.

First, teachers can help parents realize that children need practice to fully develop their social skills, and that children get their practice from playing both with other children and with their parents.

Second, teachers can suggest to parents that they find ways to offer their children helpful information about how social relationships work.

Finally, teachers can point out to parents how important a positive attitude is for getting along with others.

· Am I helping my child develop into a strong person by setting reasonable rules and            consistently enforcing them?
o Moral, Physical and Intellectual Strength.

· Am I helping my child develop into a caring person by being loving and sensitive?
o Sensitivity towards family, society and environment