

Nurture Kids? How do I nurture my kids is a basic parenting question that nearly every parent asks. Nurturing your kids involves ensuring their physical health, emotional health and also reassuring them of your affection and protection. Additionally, It’s great way to help your kids hone their life skills.
It’s easy to overestimate or underestimate kid’s skills & abilities. As such, you have to be careful how you nurture kids and your attempts to identify and develop their skills & skill level. To help you get started, below are 13 tips on how to equip your kid with crucial life skills and keep your sanity in the process:
It’s not easy to work, nurture kids, care for a family, maintain a home, possibly hold down a full-time job and take care of yourself all at the same time. However, it helps if you have a plan and a regular schedule. The best way to manage all of this is to create a simple daily routine. Start with simple things: wake up, eat breakfast, and go to sleep as close to the same time every day as you can. As your kids grow, devote regular times for playing and studying with them. Building and using this type of daily routine will help you manage more complex schedules and is the first step in teaching your kids about time & task management.
2. Let Your Child Make Mistakes and Correct Them As Needed.
Children, being the inexperienced human beings that they are, are bound to make mistakes … just like you did when you were a kid. You don’t nurture kids by expecting them to be perfect and
The thing to remember is that mistakes are a “teaching” opportunity. If you handle this properly, your child will have an extremely healthy attitude about failure and how to learn from it. They will “grow” from their mistakes and not feel diminished by them. After making a mistake, one of the best ways to nurture kids and apply this is to ask you kids a simple question when they make a mistake …. ask; “What Did You Learn?” Then be quiet and let them speak. You’ll be amazed.
3. Remember To Compliment Good Behavior
4. Be Respectful To Everyone (including your child).


When you nurture kids, you shouldn’t just watch “their” actions and words … because they are constantly watching yours. So you have to be wary of your own words and actions as well.
If you want your kids to be respectful, learn to treat your child with respect as well. Ask your kid’s opinions on things and don’t interrupt your child as he or she speaks.
Show your respect to others and greet people properly. Express your gratitude as often as possible. Apologize when you have to. You should teach your child about such things through a heart-to-heart talks and most importantly, your behavior.
5. Expose Your Child To Local Events & To Your Community.
It’s important for your kids to experience being part of a community and not see their family as an “isolated unit” with little exposure to the world around it. You can nurture kids by hosting small gatherings in your home, bring your child to neighborhood “kiddie party” or having them periodically attend day care or summer camp. Go on a local outing with other parents and their kids to the zoo or a local museum. Let your child learn about people other than those in his or her age range. Together with your kid, head to the market, church and park. You can also simply ride a bike around your neighborhood and greet your neighbors.
Kids have their own minds and hearts. Whether you like it or not, there’ll be a time when your kids will want to make decisions. As early as possible, nurture kids by letting them make choices that affect their lives. Do they like going to the petting zoo, reading time at the library, going to summer camp? Let them make a choice. It will start to show them that they have some control over their lives and experience the feeling of exercising, and more importantly …. you “honoring”, their control. VERY IMPORTANT: When you give them a choice, you MUST honor their choice. Don’t try and talk them out of it. They won’t trust you if you do not honor your words. Doing this helps create situations to train your child to consider choices & consequences before making a decision.
7. Encourage Your Child To Observe And Describe.
Allow your child to describe things the way he or she perceives them.
Even before your child attends preschool, you can teach her about sizes, shapes, colors and numbers 0-10 and also describe “experiences.” What did they like about day care or summer camp? That way, you can help him or her describe things in a more detailed way.
Nurture kids by giving them manageable tasks. Putting one’s toys in a box is a task that even a toddler can do. Kids as young as seven years old can already help in the kitchen and dining table. They can also wipe counters and desks, make their beds, and pick up trash. Doing such things helps your child develop the life skills of maintaining an organized living, keeping things clean and also experience the satisfaction of doing a job well. They can learn that work is a part of life and can be a satisfying experience.
9. Keep Healthy Snacks Within Your Child’s Reach.
Finally, cooking with your kids is great fun and a way to show them how to save money and make healthy snacks. Also, slice fruits and put them in small containers in your refrigerator so they are easily available.
10. A Place For Everything & Everything In Its Place.
11.Bond By Reading Together.
12. Introduce Different Perspectives.
13. Teach Them About Money: Spending & Saving.
To help them get started saving, you can get a piggy bank for your youngster when it’s age-appropriate.
Encourage your kids to fill it using the money you give them every once in a while or the change they get from relatives … (remember tip #10) Once it’s filled, let your kids decide how to use that money (rule #6).