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Parent Tip of the Week: Be a Positive Role Model
Children learn by watching and imitating people, especially those that they trust the
most—their parents. Your actions influence your child’s handling similar situations and
emotions that you experience. Here are some ways in which you can become a positive
role model for your child:
- Recognize when you’re angry, frustrated, stressed, or tired. Teach your children
that these are each different feelings. Show your children that there are different
ways of dealing with each. Take time for yourself.
- Learn to manage your own stress and control your anger. Find ways to relax that
work for you. Taking deep breaths and practicing yoga-like movements are just a
few simple ways that can help calm you down.
- Talk to others about your feelings and ideas in a respectful way. Be positive,
polite and clear when trying to get your point across.
- Solve your problems and disputes by expressing yourself in an assertive manner,
rather than using aggression or violence. Verbal abuse and violence are not
responses you want children to imitate.
- Talk to yourself aloud about a problem and a solution. Talking yourself through
the situation will help you to decide what you need to say and how to say it.
Choose whether you want to confront someone about this problem and how you
will go about doing it.
Have a tip you want to share? E-mail Jackie Hirschorn at
hirschoj@mhawestchester.org
with your Parent Tip of the Week!
This material has been adapted by MHA from materials of the ACT (Adults and Children Together Against
Violence) program developed by the American Psychological Association (APA), a scientific and
professional organization that represents psychology in the United States.
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