The Importance Of Collaborative Parenting In Raising Confident Children
The Importance Of Collaborative Parenting In Raising Confident Children
Collaborative parenting is a concept in which parents and children do things together at home. It can be anything like simple tasks or household chores that will teach kids the value of being responsible individuals early on.
The Importance Of Collaborative Parenting In Raising Confident Children
The risk of overparenting
A recent study by media agency Toluna revealed that seven out of ten Filipino parents are at risk of overparenting their children. What is overparenting, you might ask? Well, it’s the act, whether intentional or unintentional, of overly shielding our children or even doing everything for them because of a variety of reasons.
Let’s admit it. As parents, we sometimes have a tendency to shield our kids from pain or getting hurt. At times, we baby them too much just because we don’t want to hear them crying.
However, being overprotective of our children is not at all good. They may grow us to be too dependent on us. As such, they may not be able to handle situations well especially if those circumstances are not in their favor.
The importance of collaborative parenting
In collaborative parenting, we allow our kids to learn through experience. For example, by letting them do things at home with us, they will be able to observe things that we will model to them as their guardians. There are also times that we may let them decide for them such as picking the food that we can have for dinner or giving them the freedom to prepare their own food.
Children should experience how it is to feel pain and frustration because that will make them strong and resilient. They should also learn to do things for and by themselves, because that will teach them to be responsible individuals.
At the same time, our children should also learn to appreciate success and happiness because that will help develop their self-confidence.
As such, I hope other parents would also adopt collaborative parenting as their style because it will bring in a lot of benefits to their kids when they grow up. It’s a simple concept that does not involve any special tool or instruction manual to implement.
Lady’s Choice and Smart Parenting’s campaign on collaborative parenting
This awareness campaign on collaborative parenting was launched by Lady’s Choice mayonnaise and Smart Parenting.
Personally, I’m a firm believer in collaborative parenting because I’ve experienced that myself from my parents. They taught me simple tasks at home and they gave me the leeway to make decisions for myself. I’m happy that they applied that parenting style to me because it has helped shape who I am today as a person.
This awareness campaign from Lady’s Choice and Smart Parenting involved not just information dissemination but recommended activities to help ignite collaborative parenting within families. You can access these activities through Smart Parenting’s website.
A simple “Do It Together” collaborative game
I think one of the main concerns of parents when they involve their children in day-to-day tasks at home is that they get bored or that they feel like they are being made into household workers. I think the best way to do it is to put a little fun into the activities so that our children will not feel weighed down by errands.
A simple “Do It Together” game that I learned from Lady’s Choice and Smart Parenting is the “Egg Mayo Relay Challenge.”
The idea is to take turns in doing each step in the egg sandwich recipe. You just have to assign which steps you and your kid will take. To make it exciting, you will each only have 15 seconds to complete each step.
Here’s what you will need:
Three pieces of hardboiled eggs
One-fourth cup of Lady’s Choice Real Mayonnaise
Twelve sliced white bread
Three bunches of curly lettuce washed and dried
Two pieces of ripe salad tomatoes, sliced (for garnish)
For the kitchen equipment, you will need a bowl, a fork, and a plate.
Instructions:
Mash the three eggs.
Stir in the mayonnaise and season with salt and pepper.
Spread the egg mayo onto bread.
Add the lettuce, tomatoes, and top with a piece of bread.
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Egg Mayonnaise Sandwich
Author: Ivan Jose
Preparation Time: 20 minutes
Mixing time: 20 minutes
Servings: 1
Calories per serving: 94
How to make Egg Mayonnaise Sandwich.
Ingredients:
3 hardboiled eggs
1/4 cup Lady's Choice mayonnaise
12 sliced white bread
3 bunches of curly lettuce
2 pieces of ripe salad tomato
Instructions:
Mash the three eggs.
Stir in the mayonnaise and season with salt and pepper.
Spread the egg mayo onto a piece of bread.
Add the lettuce, tomatoes, and top with a piece of bread.
If you want to keep a copy of the recipe, here is a printable card that you may use:
Epilogue
As parents, we want to shield our kids from getting hurt. However, we should be cautious of how much we do so because there is such a thing called overparenting and that may be detrimental to the development of our children.
What we can do is to apply collaborative parenting which is a way of involving our children in our daily tasks at home and even allowing them to make their own choices so that they may grow up to be responsible individuals who are able to adapt to different situations.
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