What's your best parenting skill?

[Whirliwig72]

Are you a wonderful story teller? can you gain control of a rowdy bunch of toddlers just by raising one eye brow sternly? do you just 'get' your teenage daughter because you were her once? Do you make awesome family meals that make your loved ines groan with pleasure? Time to 'big yourself up' and share please :)

At the end of the day, my child is still alive. I consider that a great skill a lot of the time.

Oh to true Tee, too true! Sounds like we are sharing the same three year old boy

I have the amazing ability to ignore them. Whilst fighting or whinging or nagging or throwing a tantrum. I can carry on regardless thus teaching them that such behaviour wont work with me.

it is my greatest skill. It comes in handy with work very often

Mine is only 2.8 but close enough!

Tee -cheers to that!

I think my skill might be having a sixth sense for averting disaster. Just found DS1 sitting on the living room carpet opening up a pat of butter. Had I waited a few more seconds god knows what kind of mess he'd have made

I make meals that make my 11yo groan... they're not that bad, really...

I am good at reading aloud though, and that is a skill that has had more recognition.

Benign neglect.

And letting them go when they grow up.

I'm good at not letting the children wind me up. When they're fighting, complaining, whining etc it just doesn't bother me and I'm always calm, even when DD is having her biggest tantrum. 15 years of teaching has honed that skill!

i'm pretty good at telling jokes. Not with adults, but kids think that my jokes are hilarious.