Recently, I received an email from Oprah’s
Social Lab Work (http://www.oprah.com/oprahs-lifeclass/Social-Lab-Work-Empowering-Children-Through-Conscious-Parenting ) where I was asked to participate in a survey regarding
conscious parenting. The first question
of the survey was simple, but difficult to answer: “what is your greatest challenge as a parent”. When I saw the question, I started to think
about all the challenges and problems (in a next post, I will list all these) that
I am facing as parent. I realize that
like most parents, I don’t face one challenge, but many, too many sometimes. The question is to identify which one of
these challenges is the greatest one.
Children present a variety of challenges
depending on their age, temperament, developmental level, learning style and
cognitive abilities amongst other things.
As in any other relationship, parents themselves also affect the parent-child
relationship. Adults can find parenting
especially challenging when they are stressed at work, when they are dealing
with separation or divorce, or when a child or adult in the family suffers from
a mental or physical illness.
So, coming back to the question that Oprah’s
people asked me, I can say that at this point in time when my son is only 4 ½ years
old, the greatest challenge that I am facing is to find ways to help him develop
his self-esteem.
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