Tenderness

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Unleash Your Parenting Potential with Tenderness

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

Love to make kids happy; never too busy to play, cheer, or celebrate with them; Do all the little things to make kids feel special and loved; never doubt your love

Motivators

Love & Tenderness

Energizers

Making the child feel special; Child expresses gratitude; Hugs, kisses, cards, affirmations, attachments

Contributions

Expressions of love; warm personality; thoughtful gestures; willing to sacrifice

Struggles

Jealousy, Loneliness, Co-dependence, Smothering, Sacrificing; Difficulty with conflict and negative emotions

Use Your Tenderness 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

Give individualized attention
Show love through outward displays
Study kids love language

Build Trust

Show concern; Recognize need for assistance; Be there for kids
Don’t judge or compare to others
Sacrifice personal wants if needed

Give Hope

Provide deep sense of belonging
Share the person they will become
Show unconditional love despite behavior

Establish Structure

Create healthy routines in home
Express daily positive affirmations
Encourage serving one another

Bring Correction

Gently explain consequences
Consistently affirm value as a person during discipline
Relate to disobedience with your story

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

Strategies

Feel alive parenting kids with positive, healthy, and lasting relationships
Find time and ways to express love; Learn and teach kids’ love language
Balance give and take in relationships; Don't be sacrificial in giving and receiving love

Tenderness

Listen as Jay shares how he uses his Tenderness strength to parent his girls.

Find the Best of You

While there are common ways that parents use their Tenderness 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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