You can become a Premium Parent™ Or Teach Others to do so
Recently the Co-directors of Dasi-Ziyad Family Institute traveled to Guyana, South America, Toronto, Canada and Pennsylvania to conduct workshops or seminars on Parenting and/or provide marriage and family education to couples and individuals. At each of these places, we were beseeched with requests for information and help with parenting skills.
These inquiries allowed us to share topics from the Dasi-Ziyad Family Institute’s curriculum, Parenting for the 21st Century which teaches any person raising children, how to become a Premium Parent. Parenting for the 21st Century is a TOOB (or Teach Out of the Box) curriculum that provides, detailed, practical guidance for parents in today’s world.
One workshop was titled “How Do We Transmit Higher Values to Our Children?” And again we were powerfully reminded that most people who care for children want to raise them in healthy ways. That is why the main premise of Parenting for the 21st Century is: Parents (and other childcare providers) can raise caring, conscientious, industrious children and they can become Premium Parents™, a term coined by the Dasi-Ziyad Family Institute for parents who are committed and empowered with healthy parenting skills. The dictionary defines premium as an adjective that means “of very high quality or higher than normal.” Below, we list the eight principles of Premium Parenting™.
Premium Parents™ are parents or chlidcare providers who:
- Consciously, intentionally conceive and/or raise children who will be caring, conscientious servant leaders;
- Exemplify and model the behavior they want from their children
- Are truthful, compassionate, clean and self-disciplined
- Realize a serious responsibility for all the children who come into their environment
- Show genuine affection to their children and others
- Are very aware of their connection to Life and other living beings and therefore feel the urge to serve and respect that life
- See their children as belonging to God or something greater than themselves and therefore recognize that they are “stewards”
- Raise their children in a wholistic manner, giving care and attention to nurturing their bodies, their minds and their souls.
Premium Parents™ generate resiliency in children, giving them the ability to weather the ups and downs of life in healthy, growth-enhancing ways.
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