Tips For How To Be A Good Mother

• Guide your child through the problem-solving process if they need help with their homework. This way they'll learn how to do it on their own and won't become dependent on you.
• Spend quality time with your child. Play ball with your son or do a craft project with your daughter. And make sure you have fun.
• Take your child out to museums, the theater, classical music concerts, and other cultural events. While they may not like it at the time, they will most likely be grateful when they are older that they have a more well-rounded background.
• Always be supportive.
• Always try to be fair.
• Don't use the phrase, "I carried you for 9 months!" in an argument. Your kids will most likely not understand what you actually had to go through, and it won't be really effective.
• A few other observations from another perspective:
• Parents need to teach their children how to be successful adults. Don't routinely do things for your children that they can learn to do for themselves.
• Life is a great teacher. Don't be too quick to rescue your child from the results of their own actions if the consequences are not overly severe.
• Your child is an individual deserving of respect, not an extension or a reflection of you.
• Love them unconditionally; don't force them to be who you think they should be in order to earn your love.
• Let them have some freedom. They need to learn how to live and work out problems on their own. This will give them confidence and allow them to become independent, successful adults. This is not unconditional freedom. You still set boundaries and limits.
• Create boundaries and enforce them. No means no; once you say it, don't cave unless there is a highly developed debate and logical evidence for you to change your mind. You are not your child's friend, you are the authority figure.
• If they break a boundary, make sure there are consequences. Do not let them wheedle out of the consequences, minimize it, or delay it, or else it will not be as effective. Make sure their father will help enforce the boundary.