Heather Dalton joined us as the speaker at the last PTF meeting. Heather was an administrator at Horizon Prep for years before leaving to start her own family. Now she's a mom at HP with a two, four, and six year old.
Heather shared 10 tips on parenting that she says she stole from the very best minds. Tips one through five are on this episode, with six through ten on next week's episode Monday morning. Here are her first five tips.
- Keep your kids at Horizon Prep. Train your children in righteousness instead of “exposing them to evil".
- Be who you want your kids to be. 90 percent of parenting is being the kind of person you want your kids to be.
- Accept that conflict is good for our kids. We believe that our trials are helping to make us better people, but it’s hard to believe that for our own children. We need to take a step back and say “What is the Lord trying to teach our kids through this?”
- Praise effort over ability. Foster an environment where all that matters is they do your best. Research shows the more effort we put into something, the more we will achieve.
- Be very aware of your child’s friendships. “Bad company corrupts good character”.
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