Good Parents Always Admit Their Mistakes…

cats: Some Thoughtsdate: October 16th, 2008Author: kompostela

All of us try our best to be the best parents. We adore our kids and can’t even imagine how we could live without them. But there is no happiness without drop of sadness. During times when we are very tired (sleepless nights, too many things to do about house and taking care for baby) or under some stress we act like we didn’t use to do. And when you calm down you wish you could take everything back. Then you feel regrets and began to doubt if you are really good parent as you thought before.

When your mind is sober and calm you understand that all tantrums and misbehaver of your child usually have reason (hunger, tiredness, feeling bad because of painfully growing teeth and so on). You also understand that almost in every situation you could act differently (though it’s not easy to confess). Attempt to imagine what your child felt in such situation isn’t very comforting but it’s good for the future preventing the same mistakes.

So what to do in such situation? To my opinion is to apology. You’ll teach that it’s good to become aware of your own mistakes especially if you are senior. Everyone needs one more positive example to smooth away unpleasant situation. It will be very honest to tell that you were wrong and you felt sorry for loosing your temper even if your child is only 2 or even smaller. Talk together about how you will prevent the same mistake from happening in the future.

Finally, forgive yourself, too. We’re all humans, and our willingness to grow and learn from our mistakes is the best engine to move us ahead.