EduNews Magazine Summer '15/'16 | Page 14

children sleep in the same bed as you, or whether you strongly feel that they need to sleep in their own beds, it does not really matter. What matters more is that you THOUGHT about it beforehand, and then DECIDED to implement whatever arrangement you did with CONSISTENCY and CLARITY in your home. Of course you may decide in two years’ time to change your mind about the decision, but still you do this not as a reaction to something that happened, but as a proactive change that is implemented. If you do not have a specific opinion one way or the other, it is still important that you think and decide on it, so try to get as much information and trusted opinions 14 • • September/November 2015 about a certain thing so that you can make a proactive decision before you have children. Excerpts from the book “Capacity to Parent – the secrets of the parenting triangle” by Clinical Psychologist Dalene Gous. To order the complete book, please send an email to [email protected]