EP 4: 6 Parenting Mistakes You Can’t Afford to Make

We all flub up from time to time. None of us are perfect parents. But there are a few very big, but very common parenting mistakes we’d like to avoid or counteract if we can. 

As mothers, we love our children dearly and want the very best for them in life. We want to nurture and protect them and to fill their childhood with wonderful opportunities to learn and grow and create lasting memories. Isn’t that right? 

Yet sometimes, the things we do in an attempt to “help our kids out” end up “holding them back” instead. Sometimes, our parenting mistakes actually just serve to handicap our children.

Countless habits fall into this category, but in this episode of Loving Life at Home, we'll look at six parenting practices -- all extremely common in our current culture -- that will sabotage your child’s future success if you don't guard against them.

FREE PRINTABLES MENTIONED

- Age-Appropriate Chore Chart

- Bedroom Inspection Checklist

- Ideas for Earning Screen Time: Chart

FURTHER READING

- "Play Deprivation is a Major Cause of the Teen Mental Health Crisis." -  article by Jon Haidt & Peter Gray

- "8 Ways Screens are Ruining Your Family's Life" - article by Lori Leibovich for Huffington Post

- 12 Ways Your Phone is Changing You - sobering book by Tony Reinke

- Love Your Husband/Love Yourself - my book on prioritizing your marriage, even after children

VERSES CITED

- “If any will not work, neither let him eat.” - 2 Thessalonians 3:10

- "Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than men..." - Colossians 3:23

- "Excuses might be found for a thief who steals because he is starving. But if he is caught, he must pay back seven times what he stole, even if he has to sell everything in his house.” - Proverbs 6:30

- "Keep me from paying attention to what is worthless.” - Psalm 119:37

- "My suffering was good for me, for it taught me to pay attention to your decrees.” - Psalm 119:71

- "To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven…” - Ecclesiastes 3:1

- "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.' So they are no longer two, but one flesh.Therefore what God has joined together, let no man separate.” - Mark 10:7-9