We watch our children grow and we worry a lot about them. We imagine them alone at school or when they grow up and move out to college on their own and we worry how they will be when we’re not there to protect them.
We want our kids to be successful adults, and so we spend our time worrying about the right way to discipline them, the right way to encourage them – the right way to manage every minute of our lives around them.
In the end, though, what matters the most is love.
No matter what kind of techniques of parenting we follow, children will turn out well so long as we shower them with love and they receive and feel the love of parents.
Studies in human children found a connection between early social experiences and the volume of the amygdala, which is that part of the brain that helps regulate emotional reactions and stress responses. Greater the love connection between the parent and the child means a larger and more connected brain and better ability to self regulate.
Numerous studies also have found that children raised in a nurturing environment typically do better in school and are more emotionally developed than their non-nurtured peers.
So as parents, when we touch, talk and play with our kids, when we are patient with them, and reassure them when they’re worried, we are actually contributing to emotionally stronger and happier children.
This is a fact proven in many parenting research and studies that loving our children is the one thing that makes all the difference – in more ways than you can fathom.
Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.