Patience

Patience is probably the key skill that a parent needs to master when it comes to dealing with kids. It always seems so simple and easy to loose patience and yet so difficult and sometimes almost impossible to find more of it. Of course it’s impractical to be patient all the time trying to cover up the true frustration you feel inside…but we need to do our best as parents to exercise patience with our kids.
I have had trouble all my life with being patient. I am a person that wants things to happen now rather than waiting for things to develop over time, and I do not like surprises at all. As I became a parent I began to really understand the need to be patient. Kids require you to be patient. When you are trying to explain to them that they cannot throw balls in the living room, or trying to get them to pick up their toys off the floor, we have to be patient and understand that they are just learning. We have to exercise patience when they do something wrong as well. We should not be so quick to yell, or to punish our kids without taking to the time to talk to them and explain what they have done wrong. I make a point to always discipline with love and let my kids know why they are being punished before the discipline is handed out. This takes a tremendous amount of patience on our part but it is something that can be done.
One thing you want to do is never lose your temper with your children. They can sense when someone is upset or when they are angry or whichever the feeling may be. Children have something almost like a radar that just picks up on those feelings and it makes them worrisome and anxious causing them to act up more, so whatever you do, keep your calm. It's definitely easier said than done, but if we attempt to never lose our temper and exercise patience we can help our children be the best people they can be.