Collaborative parenting is important in raising children who are confident and independent.
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.
This awareness campaign on collaborative parenting was launched by Lady’s Choice mayonnaise and Smart Parenting.
Here’s what you will need:
Instructions:
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 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.
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 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.
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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