Every Child Is Unique: Picture Prompt#BlogALeague

Parenthood is a difficult roller coaster and we should enjoy it with our kids.

Unit test is over and preparations are going on for the final exams? But still we are in the situation of comparing our child’s grade with his friends, right or wrong mummy?

This is we 😅, today’s mummy, but un-intentionally we tend to get in comparison always. As soon as we wear the costume of mother our mind starts jumbling:

Why my baby is still not crawling?

Why my baby is still not gaining weight?

Why my baby does not have teeth yet?

Why my baby is not able to eat a full bowl of cereal?

And once they grew up, the question changed like –

he is not writing properly, why ?

He is so slow in reading.

He does not like math?

Why he is not playing outdoor games?

List will never end as a mother. 😀

I am still going through this and sure that every mother is doing the same.

STOP COMPARISON

Each child is born with his/her own intelligence and personality traits. As a parent our job is to shape up their mind to be a good human being.  Our child is born as an independent individual and remembers that in spite of our many trials we cannot change them as per our wish.

Image source: Icecreamcity on Flickr(Pinterest)

The above picture depicts the same thing. Children’s are climbing the building to reach the same goal. Each one of them has their own way to achieve it. In the same way we have to remember that our kid is not going to be the way we want. They may or may not read fluently, write properly, solving math’s problems efficiently or doing extracurricular activity as the way we want. Each child have different learning style and pace. Identify the difference and appreciate their uniqueness.

LET’S ACCEPT,

## Our child is unique and different from the other one. They have their unique way to deal with social, intellectual and physical challenges.

## Accept their boundaries and don’t force them to be excellent in every field. Even we were not so excellent, remember always and don’t pressurize them.

## Accept their choice instead of imposing our.  Practice this at an early stage of child, especially when they are toddlers. Allow your child to choose their own game, friends and even cartoon too. Do not force them to have this and that according to our own thinking what is right for them.

## Accept your child’s weakness. Every child is not intelligent in the academic field. He or she may be excellent in music, dance, painting, and game, in anything. Don’t force them to run in the race which we made for them. They even do not aware about it and please do not instill this in to their mind. Accept them with their weakness and try to improve with their own pace. Not the way we want, as we always want to do it quickly.😐

## Allow them to express their feeling. Do not make them feel bad if something not happened according to our or their wish. If your child is fail in any subject, handle this with love and care instead of anger. Teach them that it is OK to have a failure, as it is a part of our success.

## Last but not the least allow them the way they want to be. We as parents want our child should be like this, please stop that! They born with their own personality and do not try to change it.

"Each child is unique not only in capable of learning but also capable of succeeding."
- Robert John.

I am signing off here. Hope this roller coaster will bring lots of fun in your life and you enjoy the each ride.

Till then Happy Parenting.

This post is written for #BlogALeague with Ruchi, Dipika, Charu and Preetjyot.

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