(P)referential parenting and guidance from A to Z

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If so no knowledge, it means easily not knowing to notice and also not knowing to take it into account or respond to it. Think about your thinking about parenting As a parent, you equate your parenting often to your actions to your child. How you deal with your child so that it could grow. Less you equate your parenting with creating an environment for your child in which this growth can proceed optimally. Still less do you think that upbringing often has to do with your thinking about your child, about yourself, about your parental interaction, about the parental context and the parental framework in which this upbringing takes place. However, it can be established that your parental behavior and the parental environment that you offer are very determined by your upbringing thinking. The upbringing environment and your upbringing are the interpretation of your upbringing thinking. Suppose you assume that a child is not yet capable of any independence, so you will create an environment in which a lot is arranged for the child and you will constantly help your child so that their is little of no necessity for independance and the child is not encouraged to do so. Your thinking about upbringing is usually a very personal way of thinking that has gradually grown on the basis of your personal parenting experience and on the basis of acquired and gathered information. It is not impersonal

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