Nurturing your Children

 

Supportive, warm, nurturing emotional interactions with infants and young children help the central nervous system grow appropriately. Listening to the human voice, for example, helps babies learn to distinguish sounds and develop language. Exchanging gestures helps babies learn to perceive and respond to emotional cues and form a sense of self.

Nurturing you chidren helps with building bonding skills, developing cognitive skills, developing morality, and self-regulation. When children are secure, empathetic, and nurtured, they learn to be intimate and empathetic, eventually to communicate their own feelings and develop their own relationships. 

"Nurturing emotional relationships are the most crucial primary foundation for both intellectual and social growth. At the most basic level, relationships foster warmth, intimacy, and pleasure; furnish security, physical safety, and protection from illness and injury; and supply basic needs for nutrition and housing. " 

 Relationships with your children also teach them which behaviors are appropriate and which aren't.  Since childrens behavior become more complicated in their second year of age, they learn from their parents or caregivers tone of voice, gestures, and facial expressions of what brings approval or dissaproval.Interactive emotional relationships are important for many of our essential intellectual and social skills. The notion that relationships are essential for regulating our behavior and moods and feelings, as well as for intellectual development, is one that needs greater emphasis as we think about the kinds of settings we want for young children.

When we think of nurturing our children, it doesn't seem like a complicated thing but there is always a negative side of nurturing.  Some parents don't understand the proper way of handling nurturing when It comes to punishing or rewarding. It might be hard to incorporate a caring mindset when you need to punish a child but it can be done.

I loved this part of this class, seeing the words of the prophets for the first time. the words of David O. McKay, 

"Never must there be expressed in a Latter-day home an oath, a condemnatory term, an expression of anger or jealousy or hatred. Control it! Do not express it!

I love this quote because it really helps parents not only realize that it's ok to feel anger but to be able to control it is another thing.  It's important to be strong for children and not portray your anger onto them.  Growing up in my own home, my parents fought a lot and I didn't know at the time but all the anger that was in our house was projected onto the kids and also made me angry.  It was hard for my mom to understand why I was so angry inside but years after, when they really looked at it, they realized the enviroment I was in was filled with arguments and hate so I also potrayed it. N

The concept of nurturing your children is simple and very straight forward but lets dive 

deeper into it.

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In simplier terms, Emotion coaching to me is a way of really diving into children's feelings, not dismising them just because they're younger.  Also validating their right for having the feelings they do and letting them know you understand.  

Do you think you did a good job as a parent being there for children and really validating their feelings?  

What is something you wouldv'e done differently?

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Knowing what emotional health is, now my most favorite and important step is validating your child's feelings.

It's easy to tell your child good job but that's not going to make them feel proud.

 Take a look at this chart.

Try these next interaction with your chidren!