Nigerian author, Abimbola Olayinka, says parenting means re-parenting ourselves so we can be in full position of parenting our children.
Abimbola is a mother of two beautiful girls and she sheared that for her style of parenting, she adopted authoritative style of parenting which is parenting with self-awareness and empathy.
According to her, authoritative style of parenting is where by you’re able to fill your cup so you can generously feel the emotional need of your child.
Talking about her new book ‘Peaceful Parenting’, Abimbola revealed that the book was put together because she realized that there’s a gap in parenting.
she said, “It is clear that parent actually think parenting is ‘parenting your child not knowing that it’s about reparenting ourselves so we can be fully positioned to parent the child in front of us’.
“Its important to have daddy and mummy at the same page because there are some skills a child will learn from daddy and also pick from mummy and they have to be that balanced.
“So it is important for daddy to be available because parenting is not actually gender sensitive.
“Daddy have a roll and child care is the role of the mother and the father and not the mother alone.
“In this part of the world we feel mothers should take care of the children while fathers should do the provision, no it’s a two way straight.
“You have you role as a father. It’s okay for daddy to cook in the kitchen and it’s also okay for mummy to drive the kids to school. She added
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