It is parenting essentials and it is the season of joy, celebrations, Thanksgiving and laughter with many more goodies. And let's just reflect over the year 2021 as parents. So I know we have a lot of expectations. Why not just talk about expectation. The year is running to an end. We are going to be talking about our expectation on children. But for today, I want to talk about expectation on yourself as a parent caregiver. So what were your expectations at the beginning of the year? I know we have said a lot. Before I continue, let me remind us of our major work as parents. What's our duty as parent is to love and love and love again. I've said that over and again and that's what cannot be over emphasized. We can't just love our children over and again. I've said that even when they are doing something bad, when they are doing something that is terrible, when they are doing something that is making you cry, they are doing something that is very bad that all eyes can see that this is very, very bad. Your job, my job is to continue to love, love, love. In the loving, it's the way that will be solution to that particular problem. Back to our expectations. At the beginning of the year, a lot of us wrote down that we want to be a better parent. We want to improve in our parenting skills. We all said a lot of things at the beginning of the year 2021. That want to get better in our parenting. We want to be a better version of ourselves. We want to be able to parent our kids in a better direction. And correct all our past mistakes and errors. One of the things that I believe you and I said this year is to make communication a priority. It's to love them the more, show them, give them reassurance that will indeed love them. A lot of things I said, like you want to, you want to model, want to see. We said that this year I'm going to do a lot of modeling. And a whole lot of things that I cannot keep mentioned. I just want you to take a moment and think about what were the things that you said this year I'm going to get better. This year I'm going to do better. Did you do them? Were you able to achieve all these expectations of yours? If yes, congratulations. I give you a very round of applause bravo to you. And if not, one thing that you can do in order to not repeat the same mistakes or the same things that you put down at the beginning of the year. And you are not able to achieve is for you to see reasons why you couldn't achieve them. Like making communication a priority. But you are never around this year even to communicate with your child. Talk less of making communication a priority. I'm not blaming you. I've said it that several of my videos. Maybe you've got a better job this year. And that job required a lot of time for you to be present. Congratulations. Don't forget you are doing all these things for the benefit of your children. So you don't have to feel bad. You don't have to beat yourself to that. It's just for the betterment of your children. Whatever we have been present and communicating to our children is also a priority. So look for ways. How do you go about it? 2022. How can I make communication a priority? Maybe you come late at work? Are your children at most of the time? It's a bad time. And you couldn't catch up to know what is going on in their lives. And to even after I was your day, I was your school. And show in all these your business schedule. Plan out. How can you make communication a priority in 2022? You cannot just be busy for seven days a week. 24 hours per day. It is not possible. In achieving an excellent parenting. In being a positive parent. And seeing the result in the life of a growing glory. You cannot both find time in out of your business schedule to ensure you meet up. With what is going on in the life of your kids. So as you take that job in 2022. And show that you map it out. There's a way you can plan it with your balls or plan it with yourself. I said this day, please, I need a time out. Or this weekend, I need to be home with my children. It is determination. It is determination. You can do it. I can do it. Please let's achieve whatever we expect to achieve by here. And if you are unable to achieve them, then just say don't beat yourself. Next day is another year. We can keep pushing. This year, one of the things you said to yourself is you're going to model what you want to see in the life of your children. You want to be a good role model. But all through the year, you were too busy. You were not around. If you're not around, how can you model? You cannot be at your work and be modeling what you want to see. Even if you find it day to model what you want to see in the life of your children. When are you going to see the reflection? How do you see if it gets it right? So we talk about modeling. You said to see you're going to work on their limits. You want to give them boundaries. You want them to have limits. You want to work on the consequences on everything they have done. But yet you were not around. Of course you took a nanny or an ounce of help or a nanny or whatever you call them. But you know, even when you're giving them this ruse, it cannot be like the way you want it. You need to be there to see. So those are the things I really want us to have a reflection on and to work on ourselves next year. I also want to be a better parent next year. Or you really want to be a better parent next year. I'm sitting down and I'm thinking now from January, what were the things I said I was going to do to better my parenting skills this year. Did I achieve them? And what are the things I couldn't achieve? And why was I not able to achieve them? This is a tick sheet that I'm checking because I really want to be better and I want you to be a better parent. So as we end this year 2022, I really want you to have a reflection. Check the key things that will make you achieve your positive parenting. And check where you're able to achieve them. If yes, once again congratulations. And if you're not able to achieve them, what were the reasons why you couldn't achieve them. And how were you working on achieving them in the coming year? Let's do it together, let's walk together, let's keep pushing. We can both do it together, let's walk it together. And together we can be better parent. My name is Oye, Oye Lio from the Vision Guide. Thank you. you