Parenting Tips-Top 100 Tips for Moody or Difficult Children
Would you be interested in some excellent Parenting Tips to find out and nurture your curiosity about how to deal with moody or difficult children?
Dear parents or new parents,
Would you mean it to find out the root cause of moody or difficult children? Pleas stay with me till the end to find out. As we are commencing our new journey of parenting there are many challenges and difficulties which we may face.
Parenting style differs from one parent to the other. Same as the personality and what things we value the most to ourselves and our family. We may have seen many different parenting styles and types. We may have seen many parents with too much strict rules. While we may have also seen some with too much freedom of choice.
To me neither of these types of parenting styles sound correct. I think this way because if we are too much strict with them and say no to whatever they do or ask, the result would be nothing but negative. If we are too much easy going with them and leave them free, it is not good either because they will grow with no rules and no boundaries. Here is what, we must always think in being moderate with them. Neither too strict nor too easy going.
We may all experience different stages in which we find ourselves with joys and passion of being parents. We should know this also that it is a journey full of struggles and challenges. Specially if you are dealing with moody or difficult children.
It is always different from our first child to the next one. I have seen some parents who are wondering and very worried about the fact that their first child was like an angel but the second one is nothing like the first one. In parenting, the first thing which fails us is comparison. The day when we are able to realize and understand that and tell ourselves that all my children have come to this world uniquely, only then we are able to treat them in that unique way.
There are many different parenting styles but the main three are:
- Authoritative
- Authoritarian
- Permissive
1. Authoritative:
Authoritative parents are authoritative and responsive. This parenting style is more of child-centered approach with higher expectation of maturity. Authoritative parents give freedom to their children to learn and explore their surroundings but they also set boundaries and limits. Besides, they ensure in setting healthy limits in their freedom.
The responsiveness and presence of these parents result in good self-esteem to their children. It also help with the autonomy of their children. These children are often very self reliant and confident. Authoritative parent’s children are more liked and appreciated among their friends, classmates and the rest of school friends other than classmates. Their positivity, generosity and self-determination are the causes of being more lovable among those in their surroundings. It results a better and positive environment in that community and eventually the society.
In this parenting style, children are given freedom to take the decision based on their reasoning and logical thinking. However, in cases of mistakes often they are more forgiving but they also set punishment in form of consequences, not by spanking and raising their voice. In this parenting style children are more likely to experience the natural consequences and learn through that.
Studies have shown that children of Authoritative parents are more successful in their school studies and become more successful later in their collage and higher education’s degree achievements.
2. Authoritarian:
Parents with this style of parenting are demanding but not responsive. They are very strict and practice highly heavy-punishments in the form of spanking and shouting on their children. Authoritarian parents expect their children to listen to them with no questions asked and no feedbacks given or explained.
These parents are very aggressive towards their children. They lack responsiveness and do not bond with their children. These parents have very high expectation of their children as showing the attitude of an adult. They often tread their children as adults by expecting more maturity.
The kind of children that Authoritarian parents produce are highly obedient, very quite, have very low self-esteem and often are angry or depressed. These habits are then transformed from their childhood to their adulthood. This parenting style results in more suicide risks for the children. Authoritarian parenting style is more likely to be seen among the countries which are lift in poverty and war for many decades. Thus, the negativity, stress, depression which are surrounding the society appears in the families as well. Specially in parenting.
3. Permissive:
In Permissive style parenting, parents are very involved with their children but have very few behavioral expectations. They are responsive but not demanding. They set very few or no rules at all. These parents are like friends to their children and often give their children advices as a friend rather than a parent.
In this style of parenting, as parents set very few or no rules for the children to follow; often children face behavioral problems, immaturity and lack self discipline. In this style of parenting, there are more chances of drug and alcohol consumptions for their adolescents. This kind of situations are due to the limitless freedom and no rules and boundaries set. These children once adults can adjust with their life eventually and move on.
Now that we have gone through the main styles of parenting, lets focus on some Parenting Tips on how to prevent our children from childhood, in order to not raise moody or difficult children.
Parenting Tips for Infants:
- If your infant cries, know that here is a reason behind it for sure.
- Infants express their emotions through crying.
- As body and mind are connected through the nervous system, your infant’s body due to discomfort signals the brain to take action.
- The action shows in form of crying could be due to hanger, thirst, wet diaper, sleep time, stomach pain etc…
- As parents our responsibility is to response before they get to crying.
- If they are raised in such way, chances are that growing up they will not be moody or difficult.
- If parents fail to response before they start crying, it is going to become a habit for the child which then results in being moody and difficult.
- Talk to your infant as much as possible. Use little opportunities to express through words as well as interactions.
- Listen to your own guts rather than seeking older member’s advice or else research from Google and some other reliable resources. There is nothing wrong in asking others. Through your research, you will be able to take a more educative decision. Time changes so as human knowledge updates as well.
- Read bed time stories on a regular basis to enhance your child’s language development. It will then help the child to start to speak at the required normal age. There won’t be any language delays.
Parenting Tips for Toddlers:
- Speaking softly to your toddlers is a way in which they learn and adapt that softness in their speech.
- Talking and interacting with them in a respective manner, teach them to be respectful towards others.
- Practicing gratitude and thanking them for their good deeds, teach them to be thankful to others.
- Forgiving them for their little mistakes and explaining the consequences in kind words without getting emotional and raising your voice, allow them to be forgiving and tolerant to others.
- Engaging with them through different physical and mental activities, help them in adapting an engaging personality which will then be an asset for their own children and family.
- Bonding with your toddler through bed time story reading, will help them have a strong sense of feeling of being supported, highly positive emotional feeling and strong self-esteem. This bonding will facilitate them in better communicating with you when help is needed. They will not hide anything from you thinking that you may get upset because they feel comfortable to express their feelings to you and let you know about their difficulties.
- Toddlers often express their feelings in different ways rather than talking and putting those emotions into words. As parents if we have taught them since the very early ages how to communicate and express our feelings, growing they will continue to have that habit.
- Most toddlers make an angry face rather than talking. While some remains calm for hours and do not talk to anyone by getting some distance. In this kind of situations, the only thing which works is a sweet talk by hugging them close to your heart. Putting them in punishment and raising your voice will do no good but in the contraire it even cause in worsening the situation.
- If parents fail to positively and effectively handle above mentioned situations, children will experience the same over and over again. Then it will become a recurring habit for them.
- Educate and prepare them for school by choosing a perfect timing in your days, in which you are mentally prepared, relaxed and in best mood.
Top 10 Parenting Tips for children:
- Love them, to be loved.
- Respect them in order to receive respect back for yourself.
- Kindness being seen from you, turns them to a kind individual.
- Forgiveness allows them to feel powerful, by forgiving others.
- Trust, lets them to trust you and those who surround them.
- Responsiveness teaches them to be present and mindful of others in their surroundings.
- Engaging with them, will build in them that kind of engaging personality.
- Bonding with them results in strong, healthy and positive relationship. In which you’re highly trusted.
- Expressing with words and 0 emotions, help your children in developing a positive mind and character.
- Freedom in moderation, will allow them to have self confidence and results in good mental health.
Parenting Tips for Moody or Difficult Children:
Do!
- Speak softly, slowly and sweetly.
- Allow them to express.
- Listen to them very attentively.
- Have eye contact with them.
- Show sympathy in a genuine and honest way, never sarcastic.
- Bend down yourself to the height level of your child.
- Hold their hands very softly and rabe for 15 seconds.
- Once they feel better, ask them for a hug. Hold your child gently close to your heart for 30 seconds.
- Wisper them in their ears in a soft voice that you love them.
- Ask for their promise to talk using words in future rather than being moody, upset and difficult.
Don’t!
- Avoid raising your voice or shouting.
- Never argue with them.
- Never spank them.
- Never ask them to shut without listening to them.
- Do not ask them to leave the house for misbehaving.
- Do not let them cry for extensive and continues hours.
- Time outs make them worse. Never ask for time outs.
- Not controlling yourself and start getting aggressive and emotional, makes the situation worse.
- If your child leave the house and run on the streets while screaming, follow them to insure their safety.
- If you think you need more guidance and intense coaching, listen to your guts and seek for more help through different helpful and effective resources.
In today’s world we are very well educated, we seek more help to learn about anger management and do not tolerate any kind of violence, be it domestic violence or child abuse or any other form of violence.
Bellow are some resources which I have chosen to share with you to help you in those kinds of situations. If you think that you need some classes, you should definitely listen to your inner-self and join immediately.
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Here, as you can see below is a site where you could find some excellent books about anger, fears, anxiety an jealousy.
Parenting Tips for Preschoolers:
- Read books to your child from an early age.
- Use every opportunities to read and show everywhere while holding the child into your arms. While travelling, use the opportunity to read the signs and show the popular places and read its signs.
- Use every opportunities to count to your baby. You could start it from a very early age. Have some numbers on your wall like posters and just pass by those posters on a regular basis by pointing at them through reading.
- Use some colorful physical objects to count with your baby. Like numbered blocks etc.
- Once your child is old enough to start walking, ask them to bring you a block. Call the block by its number or color. Your child may not be able to talk but they already understand you and will bring it for you. As you have been practicing with him / her.
- Teach your child how to color by using thick markers or colors which will be easy for them to hold. Also teach them how to hold a marker or pencil for drawing. Sketch some thick lines and ask your child to start drawing inside the line and insist in not surpassing the lines. At first it will sound difficult for them but eventually they will learn.
- Draw thick lines and ask your child to cut on the lines. Monitor them while cutting and teach them how to cut by using a small and safely designed scissors.
- Cutting on the line, drawing a picture in between the lines and playing with the pen safely to not pass the lines help them in better developing their fine motor skills.
- Find some flat toys and place them on the floor surface to jump. Later on as your child grows, gradually change the size to a little bit higher and ask them to jump. This activity helps them in building an excellent gross motor skills, it immensely help strengthen their legs muscles as well as physical growth.
- Keep increasing the height of the object as he grows stronger and older. Doing so will challenge them more. This activity will also help your child’s brain in better calculating the height of the object and take a good decision on how high to jump. Therefore, through practicing this activity, they will develop a better decision mak
ing and problem solving skills. - Prior to starting school, your home is their first daycare or school and you are their first teacher, educator and life -long coach.
- The first 5 years of life in all children are the critically important period of proper and healthy growth, development of the brain in a positive and playful environment and development of language beside mental calculation.
Parenting Tips for Teenagers:
- Think like your teenager before responding them. Put yourself into their place and feel how they feel.
- Beside being a parent, be the best friend of your Teenager.
- Have you been transparent to them since their early ages? Think of this before you expect them to not to hide things from you.
- Build that kind of bonding and relationship to your child since their early ages. So that as teenagers, they trust you and share with you rather than hiding.
- What makes children to hide things? If we think like a child, in their brain they say, “If I do so, my parents will get upset”. Have we gained their trust? Could they trust us by telling us?
- Before we let fear destroy their life, we are better to create that sense of comfort so that with no fear they can tell us anything they want to.
- Remember the not hiding formula will save your child from many harmful experiences and situations once teenagers because they have a guide (you) every step of the way to guide them.
- Spend with them quality time so that they adapt that warmth and responsiveness from you. Unlike some teenagers to lock themselves in their room and only say hi and bye like a neighbor.
- At the age of 12 or even earlier if they ask questions on the topic of drug or alcohol or any other things, do not tell them not to do directly. Instead explain all the negative aspects of it and of course positive as well if any. Let your teenager to think and resonate and ask questions. Once they ask questions, explain them very clearly, truly and honestly. If your teenager likes reading, pull out a research topic and set together with them by saying let’s learn both of us. You say, ”I want to learn what it does to my lungs and other body parts”.
- Do not leave them free to go anywhere they like and do not play very strict with them to hold them at home only. Chose a proper time of the day and allow them to go outside of the house by insuring their safety as well as in a good company, if he choses to go with some friends.
- Know their friends and try to have the numbers of their parents. It is also a good thing to have a good relationship with their parents and try to know if your teenager is safe around those friends.
- In case if your teenager have a bad company of a bad friend, do not tell them directly to stop seeing that friend. In children’s psychology, if you tell directly your children not to do certain things, they will get curious about it and do it again and again. Children think that it doesn’t do anything bad to me and I am enjoying it so why not to do it. Why my parents ask me not to do it? Instead if you ask effective questions about that friend in a good and friendly manner rather than spying or controlling way, they will respond you in that manner for sure. The best part is that they find the solutions in their own answers.
- Your children are like your own reflection from the mirror. Anything you feed in their brain during childhood, growing up they become that exact person which you made them. Then why complain from them? Reflect to your own interactions and responses before complaining.
- Nothing in the world makes a child moody or difficult unless they are grown and raised this way. I am not against parent’s behaviors and am very well aware that no parent in the entire world would want bad for their children. I am also very well aware that each and every parents are different so do their parenting style. What I am trying to say is that we teach our children through our daily normal conscious and subconscious behaviors, responses and interactions.
- You came from work very tired and frustrated, you know your responsibility is helping your children with their homework. You’re a very responsible parent and you are helping them but your tiredness, frustration and stress is transferring to your child’s brain through the tone of your voice, subconsciously. The repetition of this action on a regular basis results in children in being moody or difficult.
Bellow are some books and a game which I think would be a good thing to refer to. They are about the emotional behavior of teenagers. You could find some strategies about (how to deal with moody and difficult teenagers) and in general the psychology of social and emotional behaviors. I hope you like them and that it helps you.
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Hi there, This a really good article full of great information. I must say I personally agree with your no spanking rule. I know this is a very controversial subject. And I am not trying to cause a debate. However, I feel that there is a difference in spanking and hitting. Spanking is used as an attention-getter not to harm the child. Anyway enough about that. I was able to take some great insight from this that will help me in the future
Thank you for this hard-hitting description of different styles of parenting. I’ve always said the problem with raising children is that you don’t know if you’ve done a good job until they grow up (and it’s too late to do anything about it!). I seem to have done alright, although there is plenty I would change if I could. Unfortunately, we are all a product of our own upbringing, which always guides us as adults with our own families, whether it’s unconsciously mirroring our parents or consciencly doing just the opposite. I’m hoping your advice here will resonate with many parents raising their young children.
What a amazing article.
If I would be a parent this is going to help me a lot .
I see that you have put in a lot of work into this review and I respect that.
I am saving this for sure and will be back for more of your content.
Thank you and have an amazing day!
Cheers
Hello Meena! I must admit, when I first saw your title of top 100 tips for moody or difficult children, I was a little intimidated. I thought 100 things would be a lot to try to go through. However, the way you broke it down into “top 10 lists” and broken down by age group made it much easier to read through and it was very well written and thought out article.
Hello Tom,
Thank you very much for your time in reading the content. I appreciate your comment. I am glad it eased your work in reading and that you found it well written as well as easy and organized to better read. I am very glad to be able to help through this.
All the best,
Meena
I love your article of proper raising for children, my experienced was a parents of authority and always follow their command. In some ways, I am also to my children but I see to it that I have to make a balance by being their friend also, I listen to them, play and make fun with them. But nowadays that both parents are working, I observed that giving them gadgets would be the best option for them to get to work. Your site is a good eye opener, I will recommend your site to my children that are now starting their own family. Thank you.
Thank you very much for taking the time to read the content. I really appreciate that. I am glad that you found it helpful and that you will share them with your own children who are new parents. This is going to be an honor for me as a writer. I am glad you took the decision to become the friend of your child beside being their parent. They absolutely need that.
I truly appreciate you,
Meena
Parenting can most certainly be challenging. You have provided plenty of ideas and insights into effective parenting. In my work in mental health over the years, I worked mostly with younger children and teenagers with no experience working with infants. I also worked with parents in structuring the appropriate home environment that supports the boundaries and limits put in place when working with kids in the community and school settings. Consistency is so important and you have done a very good job in bringing forth many essential points.
Thank you very much for your time in reading the content and offering a comment. I appreciate it. I am glad you liked the content. Thank you for sharing your own experience with the rest of us. That’s a very good point to have set the appropriate home environment that support the boundaries and limits put at place. Glad you found them essential.
Kind regards,
Meena
Hi Meena, your top 100 tips for moody or difficult children is superb. My daughter is now 27 years old but I am certain we would have benefited from your ideas back in the early 90s. I have already passed your website URL on to my step daughter who has 3 youngish children under her direction. I am certain she will find it very useful.
Thank you very much for taking some time to read the article. I appreciate that. I am glad you found it helpful. It didn’t serve you on 90s so now its good that it may be of use and value to your daughters. Thank you very much for sharing with them.
Kind regards,
Meena
Thanks for sharing this article. When I child is upset and crying a lot, it’s easy for parents to feel frustrated if the crying or temper tantrums continue. Being patient with them and not letting your frustration or even anger show through is really important. Providing a kind and caring environment is key for helping them feel better.
Hello Tamsin,
Thank you very much for your time in reading the article and offering a comment. Yes I agree with you and it is quite difficult to always stay content and positive. There might be some very good times as well as difficult ones in our daily living but there are also good strategies which can help us in taking good precautions for protecting the children and our anger management.
All the best to you!
Meena
Hi, Thank you so much for the article, as my wife and I are planning on having a baby soon I feel it’s very important to prepare oneself for what lies ahead. They say that you will never be prepared, but I believe with research and education you can always be prepared. I love your website. Keep up the great work. Take care!
Thank you very much for your time in reading the article and offering a comment. I really appreciate it.
I am glad that you found the article a good source of research and education for new parents.
Thank you very much, I am glad you liked my website. I would be glad to have you among the visitors of this website and welcome you here.
I hope you both will have your baby with good health and staying safe.
If ever you need any help from my side, any parenting tips or any other suggestions; please do not hesitate to contact me. I would be happy to help you.
All the very best for your parenting journey!
Meena
Very detailed information! I was left wondering how many people grow up in Authoritative, Authoritarian, or Permissive household and if those kids grow up to become the same type of parents their parents were. I’m happy to see that there are classes available to teach us how to parent. I really think all parents should take a class on that. It’s the most important job in the world!
Hello Nichole,
Thank you for taking the time to read the article. I appreciate your time and comment. Sure, I agree with you about the parenting classes. In today’s world, nothing is impossible to achieve. It is just a matter of having the drive to do. That’s it! I 100% agree with you that parenting is the most important job among all because we are bringing up another human being and the value and the home education is something of worth for them for their tomorrow.
Children who grow up under the surveillance of highly educated parents, most importantly those parents who have the basic knowledge of parenting prior to having or bringing a baby into the world; are tend to be more mature and successful in future.
I understand that it is not easy to learn how to raise a child, specially when the child is moody or difficult but with research, good training and educating ourselves it is absolutely an achievable goal for all the parents.
The only thing which I think is more important in helping towards our goal, is having that motivation and willingness to learn and improve.
If ever you needed any help let me know. I would be happy to help.
All the best to you!
Meena
I and my daughters found that occasional time outs were a good way to let the child know their behaviour is unacceptable.
It is good to talk to a child from birth onwards, I agree. The more you do so the happier they are and the sooner they talk. Playing with them as they grow is very good too.
Completely agree with the no spanking, as it is abuse, hitting a child of any age is not acceptable. Better to put it as not “hitting” a chid because so many people seem to think “spanking” is somehow better and more acceptabe. It is not, it is abuse however it is dressed up.
I disagree about not asking for advice from someone older and using the internet instead. As far as Google goes, the information is only as good as the person that input the information. A comma or full stop in the wrong place changes the entire context of the information or advice.
I agree that using your gut instinct is best.
Good post with a lot of useful and helpful information.
Thank you for taking the time to read the article. I appreciate your comment.
I would say that time outs create more distance between the child and parents rather than solving the problem. Instead of time outs, parents should take some quality time with the child to explain with pure words rather than time outs. Explaining with words and showing zero emotions and raising voice is the best way to make the children realize by educating them and by opening up their mind.
What does time out mean? It basically is to ask the child to stay in their room for 10 minutes or do not touch the TV for the next 1 or 2 days and similar things.
What is the negative side of asking the child to remain in a time-out?
When they are in a time-out, they may cry for a few minutes, they may be very emotional and angry at that time but what could they possibly learn from that time out? Nothing than thinking of being ignored and being punished. It may also cause so much hate in the heart of that child for their parents. As a result instead of realizing what they did, they become more likely to not only repeat those actions again but to become worse than before. This also could cause in being moody of difficult.
If you explain them with pure words looking them straight into their eyes and also listen to what they try to express as well, help them mature up really before their required age and really learn from it. This positive learning remain with them for life. It remains for life and sure it remains in a positively unforgettable memory as well as best education for their own children and life.
I see no harm in asking an older person for advice. Our elders have a world of information as they are experienced. Human knowledge advances as time changes. With research, we have known and explored all those common problems which have existed among women for such a long period of time. One of the examples are Postpartum Depression After the Delivery due to which many women have lost their lives. But as the human knowledge has advanced, so many resources were introduced and discovered to help the women who were victims of Postpartum Depression After the Delivery of a baby.
As far as it is concerned about the use of a comma etc. for the readers, there are so many online classes and resources and video trainings or live trainings where the users could collect so many useful information and get the good education. There are millions of users on the internet who share their knowledge. Among them many others share with new parents through online resources.
Another example is that now a days, with some research women could easily learn how to lose weight after delivery.
If I were to asked where to find the education in order to obtain the good knowledge of parenting and to be able to build a better life for my family and children, I would definitely choose online courses and educating myself using the improved, updated and research proven resources than to ask our elders.
This is another thing that I may ask for their advice for once in a while but sure it doesn’t replace the resource education where I have a proper schedule and hours of online learning. Whereas with my Mom or any other elder I could hardly ask for their 1 hour or one day. I am sure they will get annoyed doing so continuously.
Thank you once again, I appreciate your feedback regarding the parenting tips and I hope that what I have shared right now makes sense to you.
Kind regards,
Meena
Thanks Meena, for a comprehensive explanation and list of suggestions of how to cope with childhood behaviour. I have 2 daughters and whereas the first one was quiet and would be obedient most times, the second one was strong willed and insisted on having her own way. At first I found myself raising my voice and sounding angry with #2, and then I realised that even if I got angry, she still felt the same way. I agree with your article that it is a good habit speak softly and explain. Even if she asked why, I would calm down and keep explaining until she understood that sometimes mom has to do what she has to do. That method of shouting and spanking was how my mom dealt with me, but I am glad I found a better way. Thank you
You’re most welcome! I thank you for reading the article and for taking the time to leave a comment. I appreciate that. I am glad you found the article comprehensive and the list, helpful. I would be glad to have helped.
I agree with you about the difference in habit of children. They come into this world with their unique self. We can not expect the same behavior from all of them. They have their different way of living and being dealt with.
You made a good decision, not to yell and get angry anymore. That’s the best decision you have taken as a parent and I congratulate you for that. I understand that it is not easy to just control our anger at the moment when they misbehave or not listen. Understanding that there is no use of such behaviors and changing ours instead, is the best solution for the problem. This will for sure prevent your child from being moody or difficult.
I agree with you 100% about explaining with words and no emotions. Good and effective explanation is what our children need in order to make them realize for their mistake and nothing else. Parent’s explanation leads to children’s learning and grasping the good education as we are their first and life-long educator, coach, trainer, instructor, teacher and parent.
I thank you once again and wish you all the very best in journey of your parenting!
Meena
Hi! Your insights and advice have been wonderful to read. I am a grandmother living with my 8 yr old grandson. I would love some tips for grandparents on how to help their grandchildren. My son and daughter-in-law do not take kindly to my advice so I have to help him on a low key.
I have learnt from my mistakes and want to pass on sound advice to children to help them rear their children. I would like tips on how to help with internet overload. How can we get them away from computers and back into general life?
Hi! Your insights and advice have been wonderful to read. I am a grandmother living with my 8 yr old grandson. I would love some tips for grandparents on how to help their grandchildren. My son and daughter-in-law do not take kindly to my advice so I have to help him on a low key.
I have learnt from my mistakes and want to pass on sound advice to children to help them rear their children. I would like tips on how to help with internet overload. How can we get them away from computers and back into general life?
Hi Nicky,
Thank you for reading the article. All the tips in the article are for parents as well as grand parents and everyone who deal with children and are around children.
With good schedule setting, we could help minimize the TV time and engage the children in other activities.
For grand parents, daily walk around home for 20 to 30 minutes would be more liked and appreciated by grand children. Story telling and reading books for your grand children would be also some of the things which are liked by grand children.
Children always appreciate quality time with grand parents and their own parents at a playful and positive environment.
Creating some fun physical objects like a toy car or any other playing tool together with your grand children would be something they would love. Drawing or painting along with their grand mother would also be something kids love.
Thank you once again for your time in reading the article. I hope you find the response convincing and helpful.
All the best with your grand children!
Meena
Children get moody at times because of their inability to vent out their frustrations and disappointments.
While it often gets frustrating to deal with a moody child, you have no options but to handle your little one.
Child development experts suggest that moodiness in children is very common. It is just that some tend to be more moody than the others.
If you think this is becoming his innate character, you can always bring it to the notice of your doctor. But that is an extreme situation.
Hello,
Thank you for reading the article and offering a comment. I appreciate your time.
I agree with you about the moodiness of some children and I also agree about the expert’s suggestion. It is common now a days. In my article I have mentioned some tips to how to prevent this from happening. To be more clearer, how to prevent a child or baby from being moody.
Yes, absolutely in extreme cases referring to a doctor is very important.
Great article and full of meaningful tips and loaded with information.
Your blog will reach many different parents from those with tiny babies to people like myself who live with teenagers.
I agree with you that the most important trick is to listen to them attentively and then attend to to their needs in a secure and loving environment.
Thank you and best wishes
Sheen
Hello Sheen,
Thank you very much for taking the time to read the article and offer a comment. I am glad you liked the tips and they were of value to you. Yes, I agree with you. My aim was also to reach as many audience as possible so that it help more people. Specially new parents. More over those parents who are dealing with moody or difficult children.
Best of luck for your journey of parenting!
Kind regards,
Meena
Thank you for a very informative site describing parenting styles and parenting skills so needed by many parents.
I think I’ll say I used a combination of authoritative and permissive styles. I don’t think any parent would have applied just one style.
It is important that at some stage in a child’s development, they are allowed to explore life themselves and as you said they can adjust themselves later.
Hi Kavinah,
Thank you for your time in reading the article and in leaving a comment. You’re most welcome. I am glad that you find the article helpful and convincing. I agree that it is rare that parents have only one specific type of parenting style. They are more likely to have more of mix styles of parenting.
In my personal point of view authoritative parenting style is the best one to have for any parents. Thanks and good luck for your parenting journey.
Kind regards,
Meena
Wow! 100 tips is a lot of awesome information for helping with a child’s emotions. I think I have more of an authoritative approach to parenting. I find the different parenting types very interesting. I think it is important to understand the positives and negatives of our own parenting styles and grow from them rather than be complacent. I like that you bolded key word for the 100 tips because it made it easier to understand each tip and created a greater takeaway for me.
Hi Lily,
Thank you for reading the article and am really glad you liked it. Yes, I agree that knowing our own style of parenting is very important. When reading an over 3000 words article, I understand how the reader would feel. That’s why I was thinking with myself to maybe I should make it more readable and easy for the readers so that they don’t get overwhelmed by the length of the article. It was purely due to the importance of the topic that’s why I provided as much information as I knew and had learnt during the 12 years of being a parent myself and of course by some research in the areas where I needed.
I am really glad this would be helpful to all the parents and offer good value to them.
Kind regards,
Meena
I grew up under authoritative parenting. My parents were loving and very responsive but they had the rules. We saw their smiles when things go well, same time the punishment were not fat when we go wrong. I did not know better until I met my wife who was her father’s best friend. She knew love and intimate interaction with her parents. When I saw the difference, I had no choice than to learn and copy her parents style of parenting. The result is always obvious in both parent and child
Hello Parameter,
Thank you for sharing your own experience. I appreciate that.
I understand, every parents have their own style of parenting. Its because of the cultural influences as well as economical and peace are one of the most important factors on previous parents.
I am glad that you met someone who’s values had benefited your parenting life as well. That’s important to know and being conscious of, how are we going to spend the rest of our life? Then adjust our self in the areas where we need improvement. That’s extremely important to realize and being conscious of, which in your case it DID happen and I am really happy for you and your wife.
I wish you both a very successful and cheerful journey of parenting.
Kind regards,
Meena
Parenting styles differ from one parent to another. I have found that in most cases one parent will be more lenient than the other it is possible to raise a happy, well-adjusted child to adulthood. You have to acknowledge each child for their own person and put guidelines in place for each child. They may be similar but are still different as each child reacts differently. Finding a happy medium is sometimes difficult to find but is possible.
Knowing how each child reacts will give you a clue which approach to take. By recognizing which traits each child exhibits you can moderate your approach to that child so they can learn and be a positive part of the household and in their sphere of peers.
The most important lesson I have learned is that good communication MUST go BOTH ways. This will help both child and parent find a common meeting point that both are comfortable in.
Jerry
Hello Jerry,
Thank you very much for sharing your experience and thoughts. I appreciate your time in reading the article and offering a comment. I agree with what you have eventually learnt as a lesson during your life experience.
Kind regards,
Meena
You have lots of good tips for parenting. I have lots of experience with this as I’ve worked as an early childhood practitioner and social worker. Sometimes parents can become overwhelmed with all they believe they have to do to be a good parent. It was a relief when we told them that it’s ok to be a “Good Enough” parent. Research shows that parents only need to be at their best for their kids 30% of the time. Of course more is better but a good parent is one who hangs in there and does their best even when it gets hard. 👍🏻😊
Hello Deb,
Thank you very much for your time in reading the content. I appreciate your comment.
Thank you for sharing your own experience. I am glad to have your thoughts on this subject. When I come across experienced people like yourself who share their experience, I get inspired and it is also a good way to add up to my knowledge even more by each passing day which is awesome.
Thank you and wish you all the best! ✌😊
Meena