Trust & Faith
Parenting requires two key elements: trust and faith. It's very important that parents trust their children and have faith in their innate goodness and capacity, while continuously working to develop the required skills, ability, and character. With constructive proactive parenting the likelihood is very high that your children will turn out to be the good, capable, successful adults they were born to be. Believe this. Believe in your child’s natural goodness and innate ability from birth on. The probability of a good outcome declines as parents implement parenting plans and methods that are based in fear, anxiety, anger, and mistrust. For example, if you believe that children are inherently sneaky and dishonest, you are likely to parent them in a way that increases their sneakiness and dishonesty. Similarly, overly restrictive parenting designed to increase child obedience and safety often inspires increased rebellion and risky behaviors. Trust I often he...