Parenting skills: Resolve to be kind to yourself and to your children  

"We can’t all be 100% all the time. We’re human and we’re helping our children to be human and to live as humans in the world"

Children greatly benefit when a parent takes an interest in them, even for short bursts of time. Picture: iStock

AFTER a difficult 2020, what better way to start the New Year than with compassion – for yourself as a parent and for your child.

This intention of kindness underpins the New Year parental resolutions suggested to Feelgood by Dr Malie Coyne, clinical psychologist and author of Love In, Love Out: A Compassionate Approach to Parenting Your Anxious Child.