Growing Better Families - Single Parent Family Leader Review

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Single Parent Family Leader Review

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

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Print out the Single 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.