What Lies Ahead This New Year

Posted by Wei Yin Wong Jan 1, 2009

Time moves very quickly. It's 2009 already and before you know it, you'll be planning for Valentine's Day, Easter, Mother's Day, Father's Day, 4th of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and the next New Year! The ability to freeze time will be handy!

But since that's not possible, the best we can do is to enjoy and savor every moment we have with our loved ones. Today is the first day of 2009 and it's also an ideal time to make New Year's resolutions. I myself don't usually make such resolutions because I know I'll break most of them by the end of January! But I keep telling myself I need to set some goals, especially where my family and kids are concerned.

I'm quite hot-headed and tend to lose my cool very easily when the kids decide to play hard with me. I won't tell myself not to ever shout or scold them, but I suppose I could tell myself to do that less. I just have to keep reminding myself and count to 10 before reacting to anything.

I've also made a pact with myself to try to practice most of the things I write about parenting on Suite101.com. Some of the parenting tips, advice and strategies I've read and written are real eye-openers. Some will work for sure while others may work well for certain parents and not so well for other parents. But whatever it is, I will give all relevant tips a try. Some have really worked wonders. There are definitely more that can weave the same kind of magic too.

I'm also going to spend some time teaching important values such as kindness and empathy, tolerance and acceptance and the importance of money to the kids.

And since New Year's resolutions are a big thing at this time of the year, you may want to check out tips to keep New Year's resolutions, New Year's resolutions for parents and New Year's resolutions for children as well.

Hope everything goes well this new year for all of us.