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Can Having a Baby Improve Your Relationship?
Babies are certain a joy. Cute, cuddly and the living embodiment of the love between you and your mate. As we romanticize the notion of bringing new life into the world, we often conveniently forget the sleepless nights, ear-splitting wails, and lots of body fluids that leak onto clothes. Babies can hinder a couple’s ability to enjoy a dinner together or even simply healthy communication patterns. Relationship experts highlight a need for reliable communication patterns to be in place well before you consider adding a child into your home. Make sure you both have the same desire and mindset for children and parenting. If you feel like you are ready…
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Don’t Lose Your Identity in a Relationship
It is said that love blinds you. When you find the person that makes you melt, connects to your mind, and adores you, it can be easy to do anything to keep the relationship going. This can easily lead to losing yourself in the relationship. Many people have this happen, even the strongest of individuals. While all relationships will eventually require some type of compromise and sacrifice, this should not all be one sided or completely. No one wants to wake up after years in a relationship to find that they are far from where they started, but in the wrong direction. To avoid this, there are eight ways to…
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Dating as a Parent
When parents make poor choices while dating, children are affected. This does not mean parents should put off dating, but that they need to follow some guidelines to protect their children while doing so. Listed below are several things that parents and people who are dating those who are parents should avoid. With these in mind, it is safe to jump into the dating pool without as much concern that your children will suffer. Do Not Post Online Dating sites are the most common way to meet up with someone in this technological age. This is fine, but when posting photos of yourself, do not include photos with your children.…
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How to Conquer Fear
Those who have problems in life, whether it is a career change or problems in relationships, tend to have one thing in common: fear. Fear kills. It kills opportunities, romance, and even finances. There is a story about three workers. Their boss was going on a faraway trip and wanted them to manage his investments. He gave the first employee 10 accounts to handle, the second 5 accounts and the last 1 account. The first employee took the accounts, reinvested the money in them in areas the boss hadn’t even thought of while the second did nothing with the account. He just checked it some to make sure it was…
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When You Can’t Be the Strong One
When you face problems in your life, there are times that you will go through things and have to face hard situations. If you have lost someone or have experienced them going through some kind of chronic sickness, it can make your life hard. Things never seem to get easier and each time that you have to face the situation, it feels like the first time and it never gets better. You might feel stress, pressure and overwhelming emotions of sadness and fear. Maybe, you even feel angry and you have to deal with the hurtful things that illnesses sometimes bring. Life can put us in places where we have…
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Loving Yourself to Find Love
Nothing can bring all of our vulnerabilities and fears to the surface quite as dating can. It’s challenging to stay open and honest, and easy to get discouraged. It sometimes feels as though you’re a contestant on some cheesy reality TV show. It’s as though you’re serving yourself up on a platter and asking others to judge you. You forget that you’re looking for an ideal romantic partner, and that’s all. Too often we’re overwhelmed with messages from potential matches we’re just not that into, or they’re flat-out jerks. We go on date after date after date, and many of them end disastrously. We reject, or we have to reject,…
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Losing Your Way
People like to see the real you and to know who you really are. The words “authentic or authenticity” are always being said and people always say that they are looking for people that are real and authentic. What does being authentic really mean? Authenticity Authenticity is when you are being who you are and you are listening to yourself. You don’t let the world make decisions for you and you accept who you are and honor yourself above everything else. Selling Out When you are not authentic, people say that you put other things above yourself. They say that you are selling yourself out. This means that you are…
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Being Your Child’s Best Friend
Some parents believe that they cannot be friends with their children because being their friend means that you are not a good parent. The truth is, being your child’s friend will not hurt them or you and it will not come to a point where you are not able to discipline them. Here are some ways you can be their friend and their parent: Show Them Kids learn when they see what other people are doing. If you are not doing what you say or what you tell them needs to be done, they will think that you are not a follower and that you lie. Before you sit them…
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Making Your Child Secure
When you take your kids places that cause them to be afraid like a theme park or maybe even down a big slide, they need to know that they are safe. It is the job of the parents to make sure that their kids feel safe and that they grow to be strong and brave. There has to be ways to keep the children from being full of fear, otherwise, they will become full of stress and anxiety. There are ways that you can give your child the feelings of security. Time One of the easiest ways to make your child feel secure is to give them time. Laugh and…
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How to get closer to your child today
Guiding our kids and keep them moving through the everyday routine is part of our job description as parents. This means setting limits, denying requests and correcting behavior. At times we can be emotionally generous such that our kids find it hard to see us as “negative.” Most frequently, love, affirming interactions create a positive balance in our relationship account making our kids give us the benefit of the doubt. Hence, creating such positive interactions with your kid is very important. Research indicates that for us to maintain a healthy and happy relationship that can deal with normal problems and everyday stress, we require at least five positive interactions to…
