Parenting:
Today in class we learned about parenting. I found this subject very interesting because we took a different approach to what I normally hear. We talked about active parenting and how we need to focus on the needs of the child, and not just the negative behaviors.
Which I agree with, it has always bugged me when people talk about how they just want to teach their children to obey, listen, and follow instructions. Because I have always thought that parenting is so much more, we should be trying to teach our children understanding. W want our kids to understand why they are listening, not just doing what we say because "I said so."

Everyone has needs and when our needs are not met we try different things to have them met. The two needs that we talked about in class were contact & belonging and Power. And lets say our need for contact & belonging is not being met. We try to satisfy it with other things like misbehavior or by annoying others. But we can never get enough of what we don't need. So we can be annoying as we can but our need will not be met. And that goes for every need, if we try to satisfy it in the wrong way, no matter how much we try our need will not be met.

I just find this amazing, and it makes me look at parenting differently.