How to be more friendly parent ?

Parenting is a huge responsibility and being a friendly parent is even more difficult. However, maintaining friendly relations with your child is extremely important otherwise, he or she will start hiding things from you which can get him/her into trouble. Education and play go hand in hand, and if you can maintain both of them, you can easily make education and fun simpler for them.

Here are five tips which will help you to turn yourself into our friendly parent:

1. Praise them often: Try to praise your children for every achievement they get as they will build up a feeling that you are happy with them. This will also help them to share more things with you because you have appreciated them for all the good things done by them.
2. Understand their point of view: There is always a generation gap between parents and their children, which is the most common reason for fights between them. Whenever there is a conversation, try to understand their point of view and look at the situation from their vision also. This will also help you to understand them properly.
3. Try to solve all your grudges with them: Keeping grudges inside you can spoil the relationships to a great extent. Therefore, it is best to solve any grudges remaining after a small argument so that both of you have a clarity of each other’s point.
4. Be friendly with their friends: When we are in the age of adolescence, our friends matter most to us. Therefore, it is important to have friendly relations with the friends of your child. In this way, your child will realize that his or her parents like the choices made by him or her. This will also help you to know the kind of company in which your child spends time.
5. Solve their issues with their friends: Every relationship calls for some fight and arguments, but that doesn't mean it is the end of that relationship. Try to solve your child fight with their friends, and if you successfully do that, then your child will love you for the same. 

If you follow all the steps regularly, then we are sure that soon your children will start having a friendly relationship with you which will, in turn, strengthen the bond between you and your children. Thus, you become a friendly parent.