Chris Spradlin over at EpicParent.tv wrote a list of 40 parenting tips in honor of his 40th birthday. It’s a noteworthy list:
1. Take lots of pictures
2. Leave notes in your kids lunches
3. ALWAYS ASK FORGIVENESS
4. Let your kids fail
5. Laugh
6. Stop aggravating your kids! Still trying to learn this one
7. Dad’s date your daughters or someone else will
8. Don’t sweat the bad grades so much
9. Don’t play favorites, spread your time out equally
10. Show your kids Jesus, nothing else really matters
11. Find your kids mentors
12. Read to them at night
13. Pray over your kids most nights
14. Don’t make your kids walk on egg shells
15. Use your inside voice, no need to scream
16. If your divorced, JUST GET ALONG
17. Go to your kids’ games, it means more than you think
18. ALWAYS ASK FORGIVENESS
19. Hug your kids everyday
20. Say “I LOVE YOU” a bunch
21. Make their favorite snack just because
22. Ask them “how can I pray for you”
23. Let them choose the TV station & radio station
24. When they deserve punishment simply hug them…give irrational grace
25. Let them jump bed to bed in the hotel
26. Encourage them to slide down the stairs on a sled
27. Let them eat on the couch
28. Get up and dance with them at the wedding reception
29. Do a Chinese fire drill with your kids…my wife did this last week
30. Take the toilet papering
31. Let them skip school
32. Give them $100 and let them spend it without parameters
33. Let your controlling kids choose every meal and activity for the day
34. DID SAY ASK FORGIVENESS J
35. Sit down and play legos with them…without watching the clock
36. Give them your cell phone for the entire day
37. Let them sit in your lap and drive
38. Encourage them to build a fort in the living room and sleep in it with them
39. Let them sleep on the trampoline
40. Deposit Jesus in their heart every single day
via EpicParent.tv
