FUN - Parents need to be fun, enjoy themselves, know how to
laugh easily, and share the joyfulness of life and living. Life is
nifty, & neat and full of creativity, joy, and love.
FAIR - Fairness requires that rights, privileges, duties, and
obligations for self and others are balanced. Fairness is difficult
to learn, difficult to teach, and necessary.
FIRM - Being able and willing to take a stand about an issue, for
good and healthy reasons, and not back down. This is as
opposed to being rigid, unthinking, and not listening to reality or
overreacting emotionally. Firm is needed but not always popular
in the short run.
FLEXIBLE - Being able to change plans and structure with
changing circumstances. Being able to respond to changing
needs of self and others. Think before reacting. Discuss with
enough words.
FUNCTIONAL - Parents have to stay in touch with
the basics of functional thinking, feeling, behavior as well as pay attention to
others values. Knee-jerk reactions are not functional.
Functionality considers short - medium - long range goals in the
process of the over-all situation. The larger picture requires
impulse control and self-discipline for other's benefits.
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