Having children is amazing... and absolutely overwhelming. 🙂

You and I, as parents, have a responsibility to raise our children to be mature individuals, who can get along in this world and with whom the world can get along at the same time. How can this succeed? An important first goal is that you don't lose the joy of being a parent.

It happens often enough that children and parents become complete strangers and no longer enjoy being in the same room together. And it's not always the child's fault 😉

In his book "Loving our kids on purpose", Danny Silk describes the major goal of parenting as follows: to teach our children to become people that can tell themselves what to do.

This describes a person who can deal with the storms of life: He gets up and changes the situation.

The first step in bringing up children is therefore often this: to become such a person yourself. And then you can help your child grow up, becoming such a person. This growing happens especially through the daily conflicts that you have in your family. Does it often happen to you that you just wish the conflict would go away? Instead, use it to reach your child's heart. Because right there, in the heart, your child needs to experience change.

Being a parent: set up parenting goals that don't overwhelm you and make your children strong

Hopefully over time you will find here good tips and ideas that will enrich your relationship with your children. It is my vision to help you set up parenting goals out of different "blocks" or areas, which then form a solid building.

Not every "parenting tip" that we hear in life is like a cornerstone without which it doesn't work. Such "tips" or assumptions are of secondary importance and at the same time can cost a lot of energy. For example, the idea that healthy upbringing means that my child constantly hase playdates or courses, where it unfolds as many of it's gifts as possible.

I want to focus on the important blocks that are absolutely necessary for a stable foundation. Because these blocks also ensure that enjoying parenting is not just a nice theory.

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