Parents are humans and are not exempt from making mistakes. Parenting is the toughest job out there. One has to be there and care all day every day for one's kids. This presence sometimes makes parents exhausted and tired. So a tired and fatigued person can make mistakes. But besides these mistakes, some parents make mistakes because of their ignorance. One should learn how to do parenting before starting it. There are many blogs like this one that one can read to avoid many mistakes. Here I will explain ten such mistakes that beginning parents make to help you avoid them in your parenting.
Stressing Way Too Much
Some parents take parenting way too seriously. I am not saying consider parenting everybody's cup of tea. Almost all women, except those who don’t want to or have some issues, become mothers in their life. So all those who become mothers once in their life have to prepare themselves for it. You should take your kid, his habits, and his gestures seriously. But if you become too conscious of your kid’s crying and mood swings, you will make yourself ill. An ill mother can not take care of her kid as well as a healthy mother can. Taking your parenting lightly will make your parenting better.
Doing Baby Talk
Parents sometimes use baby talk to communicate with their kids. It looks good and kind to act like them to make them happy and indulge. But it impacts the learning process of your kids. Kids start pronouncing the words wrong. So as a parent you should talk to your kids normally.
Putting Burden On One Spouse
Parenting should be done by both mother and father. But in some cases, all the responsibilities are put on one parent, usually mothers. So one parent begins feeling alone and helpless in this phase of his life. This affects the mental health of parents. The mental health or state of a parent predicts the mental health of a kid. So if your health is not sound both physical and mental, how can the health of your kind be sound?
Ignoring Oral Care Of The Baby
Oral hygiene is the most important to take care of. If a child's oral well-being is not taken care of, his digestive system will get affected by it. Ignoring dental caries leads to loss of appetite in children and lethargies in him. So as a parent you should not take the oral hygiene of your child for granted.
Doing Home Remedies
Home-made remedies sometimes despite giving benefits, make the situation worse. The health of the newborn child is very sensitive, so you should not rely on such homemade remedies. Also, the health status of every kid varies from others. Using the same remedies on all the kids is a dangerous step to take. So you should not put your kid at the mercy of homemade remedies. You should take your kid regularly to the physician.
Handing Your Child Over To Everyone
Not everyone can take care of your kid as you do. Also, not everyone loves your kid as you do. So handing your kid to everyone can be proved harmful to the health of your kid. Avoid giving your kid to strangers. This habit of yours will help develop consciousness in your kids. The consciousness in the kids will help them in saving them from bad people in the future.
Giving Them Gadgets
Some parents, due to lack of free time, make their kids busy with gadgets. Such gadgets fill the empty slots in the life of your kids that should have been filled by your presence. Your kids start taking leisure time on mobile phones, tablets, and laptops. Their dependency on you for comfort starts shrinking. This will make them insecure and distant from you. Their mental health will be affected by it. So as a parent you should become a comfort and happiness zone for your kids.
Being Angry In Front Of Them
Everything you do in front of your kids affects them. If you show anger in front of your kids, they will accept anger as normal behavior. They will practice in their life afterward and you know well nobody bears anyone’s tantrums. So try being calm and composed in front of your kids for their better behavioral growth.
Not Regulating Their Meal
Regulating the meal of a kid is a must-learn task by beginning parents. Some parents do not take heed of this matter in an early age of kids. Such kids become persistent in their habit of not liking the food. This gives them a hard time in their adult life.
Do Not Read To Them
Reading in front of your kids makes them good at listening and imagining. Cartoons and videos do not open minds towards imagination as stories do. By listening to stories, kids learn how to be attentive and concentrate without interpreting.
Verdict
These are some of the mistakes you should avoid as a beginning parent. Avoiding these mistakes will help you grow physically, emotionally, behaviorally and mentally strong kid. Also tell me about some of your tips for beginning parents in the comment section. I would really love to learn from you all.
Happy Parenting,
cheers!
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