What’s your big picture parenting plan?

It’s not uncommon to be asked about your career plan or business plan but what about your parenting plan?

Parenting is probably the most important role you have and ever will have so it only stands to reason that you need a parenting plan.

What different about my parenting book is that it helps you understand the big picture regarding parenting, so here’s the essential 9-PAC which stands for 9 Parenting Awareness Components.

The 9-PAC – essentials for parenting

1. Children – the starting point to parenting is having a child so this one is the pretty obvious opening chapter.

2. Character – character building is something that happens throughout your whole life and you can begin helping you child build their character as they grow.

3. Communication – how you communicate with your child is what is vitally important as your words can encourage or discourage them.

4. Choices – you can empower your child by allowing them to make choices about their life. You can even give them choices without giving them choices if you know what I mean (wink, wink).

5. Consequences – by allowing your child to make choices there will be consequences. This is a learning curve for you also as some consequences are great lessons for them.

6. Culture – understanding about the differences throughout the world and in your own family help your child understand global, and local, impacts.

7. Control – everybody likes to feel that they are in control of their lives including children. We’re all happier when we feel we are in control. This includes when we know what our boundaries are.

8. Consciousness – when you think negatively of yourself I strongly suspect you are calling yourself names that someone called you as a child. Your consciousness holds onto a lot of negative stuff. Let’s change that!

9. Community – although your child is small now they will be a contributing member of society. Time flies and it’s the every day small things that add up to what the big picture looks like.

Every small thing

Your child grows and develops daily. You don’t see how much they have grown each day but you know they are. By focussing on a characteristic to be mindful of and strengthen in is what helps your child, as well as yourself, become more self-aware, confident and resilient.