Raising Kids and Swapping Parenting Tips? Five Reasons Why This is Cool

I pray this initiative to swap tips on raising kids through a magazine in Sioux Falls succeeds. Every parent needs tips. Come on, we exchange tips about golf all the time. Why not about raising kids? Doing that right may mean far more to us in our last breath than a series of holes-in-one.

New Magazine Offers Resources For Parents

SIOUX FALLS, SD - Online groups and play dates help parents swap tips about raising kids, and now Sioux Falls parents can find that same kind of advice in a magazine. With children come questions, and the answers can sometimes be hard to find.

"We really don't have anything right now that we can get lots of good information about parenting, tips, lots of advice from other parents, which is hard," mother Leigh Jerzak said. But a group of local parents hopes to change that.

Source: keloland.com

Gosh, how true. We have marriage and family gurus filling up our channels. Tips from other parents are as good. I remember a movie about someone closely following the advise of a popular parenting counselor. Later, he discovered that the counselor had no child and never had one. What a funny story.

So, here are five good reasons why swapping parenting tips about raising kids is a great idea.

1. Tips need not be perfect, but you're close to certain that they're grounded on actual experience. So they make you think well about your experience to check if the tip applies to you.
2. You can find absurd tips that other parents endorse. So, they make you question your own assumptions.
3. You find some tips are wanting. So, the forum encourages you to contribute your own ideas and engage in productive discussion.
4. As you check out all the tips, you'll see some interesting patterns. So, you'll end up gathering some interesting principles that apply well to your situation.
5. As you examine the contributions of other parents, you'll see some like-minded ones among them or some under similar situations as you have. So, you'll end up making new friends and become part of a "mastermind group"

You think you'll get these benefits from a "guru"? Maybe yes. Maybe not. What do you think? I just happen to think that mastermind groups composed of dedicated parents are much more potent.

What's a mastermind group? Businesses use mastermind groups, but the principle isn't just for business! It's for anything, including parenting.

The concept of the Mastermind Group was formally introduced by Napoleon Hill in the early 1900's. In his timeless classic, "Think And Grow Rich" he wrote about the Mastermind principle as:

"The coordination of knowledge and effort of two or more people, who work toward a definite purpose, in the spirit of harmony."

Source: What is a mastermind group at passionforbusiness.com

What benefits can you derive from a mastermind group?

1. You have a group of people available to help you succeed.
2. You get the benefit of differing perspectives, input and feedback.
3. Your mastermind team can bring resources and connections to the table you might not have had on your own.
4. You receive accountability and inspiration from the group, thus enabling you to maintain focus in achieving your goals.

Source: What is a Mastermind Group and How Can it Help You Succeed? at feelgoodgirl.com

Raising kids, parenting tips and mastermind parent groups: aren't they a potent combination? I'm having goose bumps just thinking about it.