From Avoiding Extreme Parenting
ANCHOR POINTS for BALANCED ACTIVITY for OUR CHILDREN
- Encourage your child to engage in life – to risk and take initiative –as a healthy life-style principle.
- Treat each child according to their interests, their level of energy, and their need for variety.
- Wisdom keeps the child’s school responsibilities as a central focus not to be overlooked as a general rule.
- Monitor stress level in the child and family. Do you feel like you live in your vehicle? Are tempers short and frustration high?
- Focus on enjoyment over mere success. In this way you will be helping the child establishes life pastimes to take pleasure in for years.
- Is your marriage still the priority over your family schedule? Harmony between parents gives great confidence to children.