Gracious

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Unleash Your Potential as a Gracious Parent

Learn what defines this parenting strength, what motivates your parenting, how to gain energy, areas to contribute your best, and what to avoid to reduce struggles in parenting.

Description

Bring peace to your home. Live the motto that it’s best to forgive, forget, and understand everyone makes the mistakes.

Motivators

Harmony & Love

Energizers

Positive Emotions, Growth, Harmony, Reconciliation, Lack of Conflict, Connection

Contributions

Accepting; See potential; Forgive and forget, No stereotyping; Let things go

Struggles

Overemphasize harmony; Avoid conflicts, accountability, and arguments; Let things build up; Treat disagreements as conflicts

Use Your Gracious Strength to Meet Your Child's Basic Needs

Learn how to use this parenting strength to show love, build trust, give hope, establish structure, and bring correction for bringing out the best in your child.

Show Love

Display unconditional love and joy even in disappointment
Quickly restore relationship after failure
Generously provide for needs and wants

Build Trust

Express mercy and forgiveness quickly
Don’t hold a grudge when child breaks the rules
Always offer a way back to good standing

Give Hope

Grow the potential in all people for the greater good
Instill the desire to seek forgiveness
Consistently encourage kids

Establish Structure

Lead others in seeing the best in all
Gently instruct kids regarding rules
Kindly remind kids of the consequences of their actions

Bring Correction

Share emotional implications of actions
Allow natural consequences of actions
Tenderly explain how negative behavior is not in line with family values

Use These Strategies Today to Feel Confident and Truly Make a Difference in Your Family

Strategies

Teach children to make amends and confront feelings when making mistakes
Balance consequences and forgiveness to teach effects of behaviors while young
Teach compassion and how to see other points of view through asking questions
Don’t ever excuse harmful behavior

Gracious

Listen as Kristin shares how she uses her Gracious (Benevolence) strength to parent her son.

Find the Best of You

While there are common ways that parents use their Gracious strength, how you use this strength to the full extent is unique to you when combined with your other parenting strengths.

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