20 Beautifully Illustrated, Thought Provoking Questions That Will Make You a Great Parent in 2014
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20 Beautifully Illustrated, Thought Provoking Questions That Will Make You a
Great Parent in 2014
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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?
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When you say “I Love You” do you expect something back in return or mean it as an apology?
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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?
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Have you built in enough pauses in your schedule or is all the time spent running from one task to another?
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Can a parent set firm limits without screaming? Do you think it is possible to be gentle and caring, and still discipline your kids?
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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!)
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Is failure disgraceful or is it a learning opportunity? Can you live a fully vibrant life if you don’t try anything new?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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Are you handed a script written by the circumstances that you just act out, or do you create your own brilliant story?
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Can you carve some time in your schedule to do that one thing that’s your soul work?
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What makes our perception of time so different from the visionaries who raise families while they change the world?
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Are you sacrificing your sleep (and hence your health and happiness) at the altar of stress, productivity, money and success?
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Can you think of anyone who has never made mistakes? Maybe practicing grace and kindness is a better option?
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Gory, I know. But it could happen. And the only time you can do anything about it is now.
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What if you could not be with them but knew they were doing fine? What if they were gone, but only you could survive?
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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?
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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?
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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 [...]”?
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Image Credits
All images in this slidedeck are from fotolia.com. A huge big hat tip forthese wonderful artists (in the order of the photos) for taking thesefantastic photographs and making them available through fotolia forfolks like me :) – mariiya, gitusik, Apple, Friedberg, ArtFamily, SerhiyKobyakov, DM7, Eric Isselée, Anyka, flas100, brat82, Sergey Nivens,pio3, deviantART, giideon, Apple, Laurin Rinder, olly, xavier gallegomorel and Ilya Zaytsev!