Growing Better Families - 2 Parent Family Leader Review

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2 Parent Family Leader Review

It is recommended that a copy of this document be printed for each parent. After each parent has completed the review, then they should compare their responses. This will provide the opportunity for further discussion.

We have a few rules that are essential to health, safety, welfare, are age appropriate and can be enforced without putting undo hardship on ourselves or making more work for ourselves.	No	Uncertain	Yes
We give good eye contact when we talk to our child and expect the same when our child talks to us.	No	Uncertain	Yes
We respect the personhood and value the uniqueness of our child.	No	Uncertain	Yes
We provide our time, QUALITY & QUANTITY. We allow thoughts and feelings, but set limits on behaviors. We are willing to learn from our child.	No	Uncertain	Yes
We are able to resist the need to be liked by our child.	No	Uncertain	Yes
We correct our child in private.	No	Uncertain	Yes
We listen to our child and seek to understand his or her feelings.	No	Uncertain	Yes
We seek to understand the purposes of our child’s misbehavior.	No	Uncertain	Yes
We are prepared to appreciate PROCESS as it applies to growth, and are willing to patiently go over and over certain important areas.	No	Uncertain	Yes
We are teaching our child to credit himself or herself to aid in the development of personal esteem.	No	Uncertain	Yes
We have a personal sense of humor and know how, when and where to use it.	No	Uncertain	Yes
We do not tease our child because we understand that this is usually experienced as a “put-down and is emotionally painful for our child.	No	Uncertain	Yes
We are able to separate the important from the unimportant.	No	Uncertain	Yes
We model the practice of good manners and are training our child to have good manners.	No	Uncertain	Yes
We are teaching our child how to make wise decisions and are incorporating this into “rule-following”.	No	Uncertain	Yes
Serving others in love is practiced in our family.	No	Uncertain	Yes
We seek to gain our child’s cooperation.	No	Uncertain	Yes
We are preparing our child emotionally and educationally to Learn in the classroom.	No	Uncertain	Yes
By precept and example we are providing for the spiritual needs of our child.	No	Uncertain	Yes
When we speak, we make it easy for our child to listen to us.	No	Uncertain	Yes
We have a personal faith-love relationship with Jesus Christ.	No	Uncertain	Yes
We are interested in strengthening our leadership skills and becoming more confident in our ability to lead our family.	No	Uncertain	Yes

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Print out the 2 Parent Family Leader Review by selecting (clicking) the PDF icon at the right upper corner of this page. Then circle your response.

The number of “yes” choices that you have made will reflect generally on the strength of your parent leadership. That is, the more “yes” choices, the stronger your leadership is likely to be.

After you have completed the review, list your strengths (“yes” responses) on a separate piece of paper and refer to them daily (or more often). They will serve as a source of encouragement.

Consider the items that were given a “no” or “uncertain” response to be possible areas of weakness.

Print the Journal Sheet for Strengths.

Choose one of the “yes” responses that you want to strengthen and write it down in your “Strength Journal”.

In order to strengthen a strength, it is necessary to have a plan.

Every good plan has as least 3 parts:

What am I going to do?
When am I going to do it?
How will I and others know when it’s been done?

Develop a plan to strengthen a strength. Write down this plan.

Remember, the main emphasis is always to STRENGTHEN A STRENGTH.