5 qualities of a mentally healthy parent - Swati Jagdish, psychologist

5 qualities you can work on to get a smoother parenting experience :

1. control over your emotions:

Understand that Child's emotions is triggering your ego. Not the child. If the child is laughing that's not going to make you angry. The child's tantrum , crying, anger, screaming . That's triggering you. So keep the child and it's emotion separate.

2. See child as separate individual:

Child is yours. Agreed. But the child is still another human being. So don't take it personally when the child throws a tantrum or cries or says I don't want to do my homework. The child is a developing human being. They need to have their own boundaries, they need to learn to say No, they are fully capable of denying to do something,

3. Be aware that you have an inner child in you.

Now why are these big emotions triggering y ...