Thriving Kit For Parents
by Louise Dietzel, M.S.

Thriving is knowing that you outlived your childhood and that fact is your best parenting resource.

Thriving is believing that your children grow up in spite of you.

Thriving is remembering the importance of self-esteem and integrity-first yours and then your child's.

Thriving is knowing that as you keep track of your child's developmental stages and accompanying tasks, your child's behavior makes more sense.

Thriving is remembering that the biggest difference between you and your children is twenty or thirty years, more joys, bumps and bruises, successes, disappointments, and more time to develop your life's philosophy and wisdom.

Thriving is developing patience as you wait for your children to grow up enough to thirty to forty-five years.

Thriving is realizing that it is never too soon or too late to develop a warm, open, caring, and honest relationship with your children. Your children forgive your changes.

Thriving is knowing that you cannot make up through your children what you missed in your childhood.

Thriving is knowing that you create and maintain your own reality in your thinking. The same is true for your children.

Thriving is taking good care of yourself and reframing what you do not like.

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