October 17, 2024   |   Tagged Parenting,

How to be a parent that instills hope in the lives of your children

Parenting Hope
Parenting with hope changes the momentum, energy, and optimism of the home. Parents rob the home of hope when they speak or project shortcomings or faults into the air.

For example, “My child isn’t really an athlete, or my son is slow, or my child hates math.” These are toxic statements that cement behavior or characteristics into a permanent position.

Usually, we speak this way as parents because we are embarrassed and we want to help our son or daughter avoid pain or worse, we are disappointed in our children, and we wish they would change.

Whatever the reason, this hopeless language about a person’s deficits frustrates our children and creates a spirit of hopelessness.

What does the virtue of hope do to your parenting?
Hope in parenting allows you grace, patience, compassion, motivation, and joy. Hope gives you the ability to encourage your son or daughter into healthy habits and lifestyles.

When we lose hope in our children, we stop being a positive force for good. Love hopes all things. This is not the same as ego-based parenting.

When parents who put so much pressure and aspiration in their children’s magnificence, it pressurizes the home. Hope leads to action. If the parents have more action then their children, they are living through the son or daughter. They want their kid to make them happy.

Hope instead is the ability to imagine where a son or daughter could be and to actuate the best, wisest and most loving ways to help a student-athlete reach that potential.

How to know if you are a hope-based parent:

• You parent in patience not irritation.
• Your children love to learn from you and listen to what you have to say. (A resistant child is a compared child—pressurized, criticized, or idolized.)
• You parent in a spirit of encouragement rather than complaint
• You train carefully and model what you want a son or daughter to become.
• You parent from a spirit of gratitude and curiosity rather than pressure, comparison and disappointment.

When you parent from building intrinsic qualities rather than focus on comparison, your student-athlete can live from the virtue of inner hope and action will follow.

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