Another inspiring list generated in a recent parenting group:
What we wish someone had taught us:
- Listen from the perspective of who you are communicating with.
- How to calm yourself when agitated or stressed.
- How to spell!
- How to be empathic and careful and conscious of the consequences of words.
- Be present – in the moment you’re in.
- Encourage first, teach second.
- How to sort through thoughts and emotions.
- How to figure out what I really want.
- That emotional intelligence is just as important as cognitive intelligence
- How to think ahead.
- How to trust your instincts/intuition.