Empowered Parenting

Empowerment is a value that should be applied in different aspects of life. Even in parenting, empowerment is also applicable. Parents should be empowered to do their obligation as parents. The application of becoming good and responsible parents is empowered parenting.

Empowered parenting is leeting go of the pains of parenting. This is where parents practice their power as parents in the proper way by not controlling or dictating but by supporting their children through the years.

Parents practicing empowered parenting experience the blessings of being a father and a mother when they feel they are being value by their children with r espect and love coupled with trust and understanding.

Parents count their blessings and not their frustrations bevause they put God or Christ in the center of their family relationship which is the solid foundation of their own being.

Correct Parenting

Other name for correct parenting is balanced parenting. This kind of parenting is an ideal one because it ensures an open dialogue between parents and children. Parents are always giving time for their children to reason out and they try their best to understand them. They are open for compromise. They do not only hear but they listen. They try to empathize with their children.

Sometimes parents are reasonablly strict and limitedly lax to stike a balance. Children are happy with this kind of parenting because they have the freedom to choose but with equivalent responsibility. Parents are always there when they need them especially during trying times and they see to it that quality time is always present.

Only few parents practice correct parenting because most parents are influenced by the "Swing of the Pendulum", meaning either strict or lax and not the balanced correct parenting. Correct parenting is an art and a skill that parents should know because successful and happy children more often than not have parents who practiced correct parenting.

Lax Parenting

Lax parenting is just the opposite of strict parenting. This is another extreme kind of parenting. Parenting spoil their children like spoiled rotten food. Mothers to their boys and fathers to their girls practice the evil of lax parenting.

In lax parenting, children play the"gods" because their parents are their own "slaves". Parents give in always and follow their demands and caprices most of the time. No is a "taboo" to the children. Sad to say, parents do not teach their children how to live so that children can survive in life when their parents are gone.

This is the reason why most parents complain regarding the behavior of their children. They would say that their children are already adults but until now they cannot stand on their own two feet. Don't blame them, it is the fault of parents! Their children are having a hard time to cope up with practical living.

Strict Parenting

It is always the tendency of parents especially traditional parents to become strict and overprotective. Normally, the father is strict and the mother is overprotective. Military fathers are always disciplinarian because their training in the military is carried over in the family. Full time mothers have always the tendency to be overprotective of their children.

Strict parenting is not recommended because children tend to rebel against their parents. What should be done is for parents to explain the reason for their strict rules to their children. Usually, in strict parenting rules are rules and parents play the role of "gods". No question ask just follow! Military Rule: "Obey first before you complain."

Overprotectiveness of mothers especially to their boys will lead to homosexuality as one of the reasons why there are many gays now. Young boys should be allowed to experience minor pains in order to be exposed to the real world so that they will have a balanced personality.