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- 1. 20 Beautifully Illustrated, Thought Provoking Questions That Will Make You a Great Parent in 2014 Afineparent.com
- 2. Ideally, we want both. But if you had to choose -- mansions, expensive cars, and a bottle of anti-depressants; or a modest life filled with genuine smiles?
- 3. When you say “I Love You” do you expect something back in return or mean it as an apology?
- 4. Should you tough it out, or should you get it out of your system? When you see someone crying, would you offer to help or would you look away?
- 5. Have you built in enough pauses in your schedule or is all the time spent running from one task to another?
- 6. Can a parent set firm limits without screaming? Do you think it is possible to be gentle and caring, and still discipline your kids?
- 7. Do you think being a parent is as a blessing or an inconvenience? (Just for perspective, in the US alone over 6.7 million women struggle with infertility!)
- 8. Is failure disgraceful or is it a learning opportunity? Can you live a fully vibrant life if you don’t try anything new?
- 9. Have you figured out what is your uniqueness? Have you embraced it? Do you love each other just the way you are – warts and all?
- 10. You can only go so far carrying the burden of your past. Is your past holding you down? What kind of parent would you be if you had a different past?
- 11. Would it be about joy and hope, or gloom and despair? Will it be memorable or forgettable? Would it be a simple story or a complex saga?
- 12. Are you handed a script written by the circumstances that you just act out, or do you create your own brilliant story?
- 13. Can you carve some time in your schedule to do that one thing that’s your soul work?
- 14. What makes our perception of time so different from the visionaries who raise families while they change the world?
- 15. Are you sacrificing your sleep (and hence your health and happiness) at the altar of stress, productivity, money and success?
- 16. Can you think of anyone who has never made mistakes? Maybe practicing grace and kindness is a better option?
- 17. Gory, I know. But it could happen. And the only time you can do anything about it is now.
- 18. What if you could not be with them but knew they were doing fine? What if they were gone, but only you could survive?
- 19. What is your reason for reading these questions? What do you want from it all? Are you competing with your old self or with someone else all together?
- 20. Do you scream and scare the crap out of your children when they make little mistakes or do you teach them that it is OK to come to you for help?
- 21. How often do your kids grumble about doing something and you respond “You don’t realize how lucky you are! I never had the opportunity to [...]”?
- 22. MOVED BY THESE QUESTIONS? READY TO TAKE YOUR PARENTING TO THE NEXT LEVEL? CLICK HERE TO JOIN FELLOW PARENTS WHO DON’T JUST READ BUT TAKE ACTION!
- 23. Image Credits All images in this slidedeck are from fotolia.com. A huge big hat tip for these wonderful artists (in the order of the photos) for taking these fantastic photographs and making them available through fotolia for folks like me :) – mariiya, gitusik, Apple, Friedberg, ArtFamily, Serhiy Kobyakov, DM7, Eric Isselée, Anyka, flas100, brat82, Sergey Nivens, pio3, deviantART, giideon, Apple, Laurin Rinder, olly, xavier gallego morel and Ilya Zaytsev!