Finding good parenting tips
There are an endless amount of parenting tips available in the world. Resources like the TV, the web, books and magazines can supply you with so much information about parenting that it can make your head spin. For instance, I am currently in a dilemma about my own children and I am always hearing child psychologist information which tell me two things that I am finding conflicting. The first thing is that I have been told over and over again that it is important to eat dinner as a family every night. This is supposedly the best thing to keep up on what your kids are doing and to create a family type environment, and I whole heartedly believe this. I was raised in a home where we all came together at the table and had dinner, every night, at the end of our day. I try to do the same with my kids.
On the other hand, my children want to play sports, and it is my belief and the research that I have read supports it that kids sports help keep them more physically and mentally fit. Sports also helps keep the kids on a good path, further away from drugs and alcohol and hanging out with kids who have more involved parents. I believe that this is true and know for a fact that especially one of my kids would be in much more trouble if it wasn't for his love of sports.
The problem really is that because we are always running the kids to sporting events and practices through the entire spring and fall, having a good sit down dinner as a family is much more complicated. The problem is getting the sports and the dinners in is just a bit of a challenge, and really which one is serving my children better. Is there more information available on which one holds a higher importance? I am not really sure, but I do know in speaking to one woman she was saying how if she was running her kids to sports every evening, then she felt that she would be giving up quality time with her kids, and I really can feel it. I run and run spending all my time on my kids, but none really with my kids. I just want to know, am I doing things right, or making a big mistake?