Modern Parenting Tips: Styles & Approach to Disciplining & Training Children: Six Tips to Raising a Happy Child

What makes a happy child? All parents want nothing but the best for their children. One day we want to see them as loving persons, reach their dreams and be successful. Most importantly, we want them to be happy and enjoy life. But the question is how much do we control our children and block the opportunities for them to be happy?

Research shows that happy, well-behaved children are the product of happy and optimistic homes. What can parents do to generate a home where your child's happiness will flourish? Read on these 6 tips to help develop your child's ability to experience joy and happiness:

1. A happy child knows his parents are excited about him.

Let your child view the light shine inside your eyes when you see him. Be mindful of his presence by showing him your smile and warm greeting. Speak his name aloud. Children long to hear and feel validation from their parents. Wouldn’t you love to see a person’s face glow as he enters your room because he’s happy for you? Your child loves you the most. Think of the returns when a child receives such happy affection.

2. Help him know it’s fine to get bored sometimes.

As parents, it’s your normal instinct to entertain your children every time they wake up. It goes on for the rest of the day. So if we let them get bored and we rely on television, we limit their growth and development. Bear in mind how children possess great imaginations that flourish upon nurturing. But without the opportunity to persuade their creativity, they won't be happy and growth will not happen. It only frustrates you not to find a happy child. So let your children’s idle minutes develop their creativity with hands-on activities. Help them stimulate their imaginative thoughts. A few pieces of paper and some crayons can keep a happy child busy.

3. Let the child understand he is more important than your work.

Your children won’t just need your presence; they need your happy connective actions with them. Why not play with your children and interact with them. Ask some questions and listen to their answers, it’s the best way to interact. Your child is waiting for a few minutes where you are not busy with your email, mobile phone and Facebook. Allowing your children know they are important is like giving them the insulin to be happy. It makes sense to create a happy child if your work becomes secondary only.

4. Allow your child to make a couple of rules.

You’re not making them the boss of the house; let them feel empowered once in a while. Oftentimes, the struggles with our children are the direct results of them feeling they’re just followers. Parents could control these situations by allowing them feel they’re part of making house protocols. By giving your children some controls, you’re helping them understand household rules. This will lead straight to their willingness to obey. Help them feel they have the right to give suggestive house rules. Makes sense for a happy child, doesn’t it?

5. Don’t think the child knows everything, so teach him.

The job of parents is home schooling their children to be happy. Whether your children go to a private or public school, it is essential that parents are the ones to fill in most of their growing needs. There are skills not taught in school that should be learned in homes. Growth should include the packaged deal: physical, mental, social, emotional, and spiritual. Over time, your children will leave you and you don’t see them anymore. What they need are sharpened tools that will help them become the best persons they can be. It makes a happy child to leave your parental support because you prepared him to live independently.

6. Display acceptable behavior for them to copy.

In general, this is the most important factor on the list. Children do what they see from parents, not as they’re told to. If you want your child to be generous, first you got to be generous to others. If you want you want a happy child, parents must always wear a smile on their face. There is no one more influential to your child than you, the parents. Their trust is in you, so don’t ruin this trust.

How to raise a happy child? It is not that easy but this is one thing that must be done within a family. Once you focus on the child’s needs, you’re doing all you can and your efforts will be rewarded. Every parent can have a happy child, fortunate to have been raised in a loving-environment family!

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