Stay At Home Dads

Staying home at traditionally been responsibility and prerogative of mothers. Fathers used to provide the family monetarily. But things are changing and they are changing fast. The modern era is witnessing the role reversal. Women are venturing out and men are taking the reign from women. Now, men don’t feel shy to don the chef cap and acting as full time stay at home fathers. However, it is a different debate that who among the both gender is better at nurturing kids. Men are giving their best to prove the earlier theory wrong and they are also seeking pleasure in watching children grow. Right from changing nappies to helping kids in completing their home works, dads are doing it all. Men are very well capable of providing child a caring, educational and safe future.

However, it is easier said than done. To achieve this task, Patience must be the hallmarks of stay at home dads. Things like unkempt cupboards, broken dishes and spilled milk are sure to disrupt your peace but they must take things in stride. Slowly but steadily, you will learn to take things easily.

Stay at home dads also need to be positive to handle the conflicts and occasional anxiety. Scolding kids should be avoided and should instead focus on diverting the mind of the child. Parents have many hassles and in such cases being positive will help you overcoming those problems. Keep your child close so that they feel protected and secure. Take good care of child’s health and related factors like water, food and hygiene. Finally, keep yourself busy with things like magazines, books, journals or news. Stay employable and enjoy the blessings of fatherhood.

Allotting Time for Children’s Activities

Parents should ensure that their child is consistently involved in some kind of activity. It could be household chores or art or sports. Allow them so time for TV but never let it go out of the hand. Children being children will obviously love to watch TV shows for unlimited time period. Whether it’s a music channel or cartoon shows, they will just love to hang around the TV. Try to involve the kids in some kind of productive activity. But also make sure that, the child is not involved in more than two activities simultaneously. Don’t over-exert him. Keep a check on his activity and try to make poems for kids enjoyable. Don’t allow him to get the feeling that he has to carry on, no matter what’s his interest level. Children will not enjoy the activity if they are taking it as a burden. So fun element is very crucial here.

One thing is also important here and that is the fact that parents are also involved in a particular activity with the kids. Because parents are there to guide them and indulging themselves for the purpose of games and practices. Any activity is fun-filled and enjoyable only if done in small doses. But you try to prolong it and it might rob you from crucial time as a family. Do make sure to spend quality time with the child by reading him short stories. That’s when the child is happiest.

Make Your Family Ties Stronger

Parents, who have better ties with their kids, often manage to do it because of the quality time they spend with them. Spending time with your kids, indulging in little chit-chats tend to make your bond with the child stronger. So how to do that? Parents can take a concrete step towards this goal by scheduling fixed time duration on per day or per week basis. Make sure it’s on a one-on-one basis. Just you and your kid. This thing will not only strengthen your ties with the kid but also deepen the attachment. This step has several benefits like the opportunity to know innermost feelings of the child. It’s a known fact that a kid is more comfortable in sharing his most personal feelings when he or she is along with the parent. It’s difficult for child to express his emotions when he/she is with the sibling. He feels more vulnerable in such conditions. So make sure to have him talk to you in private. Another positive effect will be sense of value in importance that the child will feel. He will get the feeling that my parents value me more than anything else and they want to listen to me. Imagine the high, he/she will get.

Another wonderful suggestion to make your ties stronger with family is to think of a family activity together each week or fortnight. It could be anything like doing puzzle, playing a game, watching family videos or some outdoor activity etc. both parents can think of several such ideas and execute them and the end result will definitely make you feel very satisfied.

Resolutions for Your Family

To being with the resolutions, first start with a calendar. Think of the days spent together with family. Also count your work time. Now check out the areas where there is definite scope of improvements. Begin with a fixed time schedule which you will devote to your spouse. It could be watching movies together, or sitting in your garden, going to a restaurant, or any other similar thing that gives you enough time with each other. If you think of it, married couples don’t spend much time in meaningful conversation. The average time is abysmally low at few minutes. Normally all the persons, take their spouses for granted. They don’t think this relationship requires too much care or time together. And that’s where they make the biggest mistake. Logically, our best relationship should get best of the times. Spouse is not only a life partner but a friend, confidante also.

How about spending time with your spouse without your kids? Try to rejuvenate the early romance with your partner. A happily married couple always influences kids in a positive way. Surely, life will never remain the same. Once you have planned about this thing lets move to another wonderful thought of having dinner with your entire family. Because of the hectic and stressful lives most of us live, very few of us get a chance to have a family dinner. Family dinner used to be a traditional norm but it is losing its sanctity. Try to preserve that because it is the best place and time to make stronger relationships with your family. It’s worth more than anything else

Parenting Time

How many parents have been heard saying,
I will go with my kids for outing tomorrow or son, next week we will go for swimming session or soon enough we will arrange bike riding or whenever I will get time, I will accompany you to sports ground and several such commitments which are always subject to time availability. And when the time comes, parents are found wanting in fulfilling their promises. Now, one thing is for sure, no parents do it for his own pleasure. Definitely time and several worldly constraints cause parents to delay their programs. But one thing is also true; procrastination is never an appreciated virtue even by cynics. Parents have several jobs to do including, waking up early morning, doing dishes, preparing meals, teaching kids, doing their own jobs and several such things. It’s a hectic life for parents but its also an immensely joyful and satisfying experience. These mundane things are definitely not as important as catering to our kids but sooner than later our habits turn them into most looked after priorities.

Do we notice that most often than not, we tend to postpone the most important things of our lives. We take kids for granted and always think of doing our committed things some other times. Parents don’t do this intentionally but then they also forget that kids grow up quite fast. Don’t try to play catch up with your kids. Try to create time for them from nowhere. There is always a time for our kids for which we strive to work hard. Don’t miss the opportunities by delaying things. If we want to share wonderful moments with our kids, we need to create time for them.