Kyoo's Parenting 102

I guess this isn't exactly what I came up with but it's always good to listen to an Apostle of the Lord. I really like the fifth one.

"First, parents can pray in earnest, asking our Eternal Father to help them love, understand, and guide the children He has sent to them.
"Second, they can hold family prayer, scripture study, and family home evenings and eat together as often as possible, making dinner a time of communication and the teaching of values.
"Third, parents can fully avail themselves of the Church’s support network, communicating with their children’s Primary teachers, youth leaders, and class and quorum presidencies. By communicating with those who are called and set apart to work with their children, parents can provide essential understanding of a child’s special and specific needs.
"Fourth, parents can share their testimonies often with their children, commit them to keep the commandments of God, and promise the blessings that our Heavenly Father promises His faithful children.
"Fifth, we can organize our families based on clear, simple family rules and expectations, wholesome family traditions and rituals, and “family economics,” where children have household responsibilities and can earn allowances so that they can learn to budget, save, and pay tithing on the money they earn."

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A Kind of Father I Would Like To Be

For the longest time, I have been thinking about what kind of father I want to be. The video above shows a kind of father that I would like to be...a father whom my children would see.

I need to live the covenants I have made because it's not only my life that's at a stake but my future wife's and my children's. If I fail, they fail. I can't afford to do that. I will not let that happen.

I want to be a father and a husband who really listens and wants to meet everyone's needs. I want to know what their needs, wants, and desires are. I want to focus on their needs more than mine. I want them to always know and remember that I love them.

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Still Hoping for the Future

You know that I write in my journal pretty regularly. For the most part, I do it for my future generations. Not long ago, I have said good-bye to them because I decided that I wasn't going to date anymore and lock my heart. I was tired of dating.

However, I can't help but think that I am going to have children. I have "seen" them. I have seen them few times. It sounds weird, I know. However, I have seen two of my children in the temple. I have seen four in a dream: two boys and two girls. Today, I saw a daughter.

I was making banana bread while listening to classical music on Pandora. I decided that it is one of my favorite things to do now. For some reason, it is so fitting to bake and listen to classical music. Anyways, while I was thinking about how awesome this experience was, I thought I saw myself teaching a girl how to bake as we listened to classical music. I knew it was my daughter and this is something that I would like to do.

I still do have hope to have children. There are so many things to do for and with them. I can't wait to raise my children "uprightly before the Lord."

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Kyoo's Parenting 101

So in my Developmental Psychology: Adolescence class, we were talking about what parents could do to help their children not cheat in school. My idea for my kids were pretty great and I thought it would be funny to share with you all.

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I am going to help my children with their school work but when they ask me for help, I am going to tell them, "You are Asian. You know this." Obviously, I will help them time to time but I am not going to help them all the time so that they would have to find out answers for themselves, but one way of helping them is that I am going to use stereotypes to make them believe that they are smart (it works many times, I promise). It's all about whether you believe in yourself or not and when someone believes that he/she can do something, he/she will be able to actually do it. You should read/watch this post (Fake It Till You Become It!).

Anyways, I think it's a good idea, don't you?

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