Parenting P’s Will Help You Remember How To Properly Parent . . . . With Only Three Little Words

Parental P’s is a simple yet effective way to understand the entire secret to proper parenting, by remembering three little (yet profound) words.

Parenting P’s is a simple formula for long-term parenting success.

Parenting P’s work equally well for Single Parents, and for Foster Parents, and for everything in between.

Parenting P’s applies equally to Teenage Parenting and to Preteen Parenting.

Parenting P’s are the universal Proper Parenting Protocols.

As with most proper parenting techniques (ways of parental living really), these Parenting P’s are most effective when started as early in a child’s life as possible. Try using them somewhere after thinking of your Baby’s Name and before you start Potty Training.

It is never too early to live proper principles that will help your parenting to be seamless and natural from the very moment your baby makes its first appearance into the world.

Parents who start right find it easier to stay right later on down the road. Families who start right and then stay right have a better chance of staying together, and that is what a family is all about.

Children who have only known proper parenting and lots of parental love since the very beginning will always reflect that positive example and influence in their own lives and in their Childhood and Adolescent Behaviors.

So without belaboring the point, let us here present to you the Parenting P’s that will help parents everywhere remember the Big Picture surrounding Parenthood, while reminding us all that it is in the daily details of family living in which the big picture takes its shape and form.

PASSION

To do anything well you must feel passionate about it.

The same hold true of parenting.

To be a great parent you must be passionate about the process and everything that goes into it.

You must love your children and be passionate about their success and happiness and well being.

You should love your spouse or partner in the parenting process and passionately support them as they partner with you to be the best parents imaginable.

You should be passionate about your family unit, in whatever form your particular family expresses itself, and safeguard it with logical and intelligent Family Rules and Rewards.

We enjoy those things we feel passionate about.

We should be full of parental love and excitement as we passionately pursue the enjoyment of being a parent, seeing our children grow and develop and discover their places in the world, and all the wonder that parenting brings into our everyday lives.

Remember to be passionate about being a parent and never take this privilege and joy for granted.

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PERSISTENCE

Anything worth doing well comes at a personal cost.

Nothing worthwhile is ever easy to do.

Persistence is the cost all parents must pay to be great and serviceable parents to the children they love.

Persistence is needed as parenting is a marathon AND a sprint.

Proper parenting is a selfless act that must be repeated many times on a daily basis. And then those selfless acts must be repeated many more times the next day and the next.

Persistence is the fuel that keeps this parental service flowing.

But this persistence is aided by the passion we feel for the act of parenting itself and the image of our children individually.

That passion makes parental persistence not only possible, but inevitable.

Persistence in needed in the face of human fatigue and frailties.

Persistence is needed when the newborn cries more times in a night than there are hours in a day.

Persistence is needed when the potty training starts and stops, then starts and stops again.

Persistence when the Preteen Lying gets out of control, and we look for ways to help our children, and wonder if we had a hand in making the problem in the first place?

Persistence when the teenage years come – need I say more?

Without persistence we will give up on the journey, or give less than our children deserve, or love less than we ourselves feel to love for our families and for those around us.

The second great Parenting P is the ability, the willingness, the necessity of parental Persistence.

PATIENCE

The final parenting P is Patience.

Patience is needed because much of the proof of our parenting success requires us to patiently await the state of our grandchildren.

Proper parenting is to know that you set in motion a way of living in the world, through the lives of your children as individuals, and as members of a family, and as members of the larger world around us, that will bring a peaceful and loving state of family felicity not only to your children and mine, but to your children’s children’s children, for many generations to come.

It takes parental patience to see so far down the corridors of time – but good parents are motivated by such thoughts and expectations of success.

Patience is needed to understand that all your parental sacrifices and hard work is worth it, even while you are paying the price of being a good parent BEFORE you can fully see the good you are doing or the greatness that will result from it all.

Patience is also needed to keep the full, panoramic view of parenting in mind.

Parents are not only raising and helping their own children, but they are putting in motion a living testament to their love and devotion to all the good they felt in their hearts, and all the beauty they wished to share with the world.

Proper, patient parenting is truly a monument to humanity.

Raising wonderful and respectful and service-minded children is a way that the best that is within us, lives on in the lives of our children whom we help to mold and develop through the three Parenting P’s discussed here: Passion, Persistence, and Patience.

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