Beyond parents’ fears about missing kids, internet safety, stranger danger, children’s abduction, protection, and nutrition is a balance of parental involvement which can be called “positive parenting.”
Worry, stress, and overinvolvement are not what makes a parent a good parent. Positive parenting is about support, nurturing, role modeling, communicating, and unconditional love. Positive parenting is difficult or impossible for paranoid parents who are consumed by worry and fear.
A personal note from parenting expert, Christie Barnes:
Positive Parenting is the big picture of what Paranoid Parents is ultimately about. Stress management is as important as worry management. The things we worry about make us frightened and we in turn make our kids frightened. We are stressed and we make our kids uncertain and dependent.
Parenting doesn’t have to be so difficult if we use facts to help us do things the easy way–from easy but right nutrition, easy but proven tantrum taming, recipes, parenting tricks, changing the focus from entitlement to accomplishment.
When parents are tired, we worry and stress more. Positive parenting from facts, not fear, can restore our sanity. Parenting is stressful enough without confusion about doing the right thing.
What is the role of a parent at a time when children have unprecedented options, choices, and access which seemingly also carry with them an unprecedented number of dangers?
This is the question that the Paranoid Parents Guide book, the Paranoid Parents website, and the Christie’s World blog are dedicated to answering.
Parenting is supposed to be fun! It’s time for parents everywhere to remember that and reclaim their positive parenting joy!
More About Positive Parenting:
- Positive Parenting Articles
- Positive Parenting Activities
- Christie’s World Positive Parenting Blog
- Positive Parenting Resources
