Parenting is the most important role anyone could ever play. Day one starts when the babies arrive, then they learn how to walk, discover how to talk, choose their own clothes, select circle of friends and eventually, who to date in Prom.
Full speed, isn't it? Believe it or not, Washington Post states that scientists are researching on a disturbing number of first and second graders hitting puberty.
By the time parents get used to changing diapers or waking up in the middle of the night to feed a hungry baby, they would soon hear toddlers saying their first work or try to balance their feet. Here come the preschool years when children play nurse to their dolls or wear a pirate's costume and hide under mom's newly washed blankets.
The grade school years follow with all the whys and wherefores, as their cognitive development is in progress. Of course, the most controversial juvenile years sum it up. This stage is a real challenge to parents when teenagers start to become rebellious, impulsive and curious. As Scary Mommy blogger Bonnie Blaylock puts it, this is the privacy and hands-off years.
This has been the conventional growing up episodes. But whoah! How do parents tackle child-rearing authority and home management at the same time?
Huffington Post shares the Stress-Less Parenting Club's updated workshop tips and tricks. Christine Koh and Asha Dornfest, bloggers and authors of the child care book, "Minimalist Parenting," summarizes everything in their checklist.
Koh and Dornfest pointed out that parents should consider multi-tasking risks by directing one's attention to what is on deck. Mastering how to prioritize is just as crucial as taking advantage of in-between breaks. Scheduling and decision-making come hand in hand.
These parenting tricks, however, are not just learned overnight but one step at a time. After all, raising children does take a monstrous chunk of courage and patience.
