What Kind of Parent Are You? Work Your Parenting Style to Keep Your Kiddo #OneStepAhead

Whatever your parenting style, here are tips to help keep your kiddo #OneStepAhead

Are you a Kiasu Parent, mama? A Techy Parent? A Cool or Chill Parent? We’ve all got different parenting styles, and by now we know there’s no one right way to parent! It’s all about feeding our children’s aspirations today so they can stay #OneStepAhead and shape tomorrow!

Check out our gallery to find your parenting style, along with expert tips to help balance out your approach (Tech gurus shouldn’t forget about outdoor play, just like Chill parents shouldn’t live completely without structure)!

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Your Style: You take a relaxed, permissive approach to parenting that’s all about empowering your kiddo to make their own choices (and experience the consequences every now and then). A few bumps and bruises never hurt anyone, they’re just building grit and resilience!

Food for thought: While “structure” means something different to everyone, kids thrive on routine, so try to provide stability via bedtime rituals, regular mealtimes, and time-saving organisational habits like laying their school clothes out the night before.

Whatever your style, FEED your child’s aspirations today!

Your Style: Whether you consider iPad apps your saviour during travel or you simply recognise the value in teaching your preschooler how to code, you love your gadgets and appreciate how they both make parenting life easier and expand your little one’s learning possibilities.

Food for thought: Every now and then it’s good [for both you and your kiddo] to take a digital detox: there are myriad benefits to playing outside, from boosting immunity and improving our happiness, to staving off myopia. And of course there’s the wonderful bonding of reading good old-fashioned books aloud together.

Whatever your style, FEED your child’s aspirations today!

Your Style: Your kitchen is a forcefield of organic goodness; everything is freshly prepared at home using only the finest ingredients. Pre-packaged foods? Perish the thought!

Food for thought: It’s not worth the stress of always having to cook them perfect meal, particularly if you’ve got a picky eater on your hands. The most important thing is that your kiddos have access to topnotch nutrients to support brain development and boost immunity. Try letting go just a little and get your kids involved in the kitchen; you’ll be amazed to see what empowered, confident little foodies they’ll become!

Whatever your style, FEED your child’s aspirations today!

Your style: You’re always there to catch your little one before he or she falls. You strictly supervise every play date, and tend to always be hovering close by, whether your child actually needs you or not. We know it comes from a place of caring, mama!

Food for thought: As mentioned above, a bit of grit and resilience is good for kids! The principles of growth mindset show us that it’s more important to praise kids’ effort than their accomplishments, and what that means is we need to let go and let them fail every now and then. Believe it or not, it’s one of the best gifts you could give your child.

Whatever your style, FEED your child’s aspirations today!

Your style: You’ve signed your kiddo up for every enrichment class and holiday camp under the sun, because you don’t want them to miss out on a single special experience (especially when there is SO much for children to do here in Singapore!).

Food for thought: It’s good to let kids be a little bit bored every now and then, and research shows that we can boost their gratitude by decreasing the amount of stuff we give the. Rather than put them in everything from music, to coding to football, let them choose one special class. And don’t worry about everyone else, mama; it’s more important to pay attention to your child’s quiet cues.

Whatever your style, FEED your child’s aspirations today!

We all want to raise future-ready kids who can handle whatever this crazy, fast-paced road throws at them. Aptamil^[1] offers a range of products specially formulated for children after 6 months up to 6 years old. With a unique system of nutrients to help lay the foundations for your child’s future progress, Aptamil Gold+ Toddler contains DHA, an important building block for brain development^[2] and is also closest to helping your child meet the World Health Organisation (WHO) daily recommended DHA intake.³

It also contains the only Patented Prebiotic Blend^[4] to support your child’s natural defences.^[5] Specially imported from New Zealand by Danone Nutricia, Europe’s #1 baby milk company^[6], Aptamil^[1] is a nutrition product we can all feel good about, no matter our parenting style!

Sign up for the AptaAdvantage Club and you can nab yourself a free 900g sample AND a 20% member discount off Aptamil^[1] products, plus other perks from expert child development partners (excludes infant formula for 0-6 months; T&Cs apply). It’s a fab way to do your part to keep your kiddo #OneStepAhead, mama!

[1] Excludes all Infant formula (0-6 months)

[2]For children till 3 years of age only.

[3] FAO/WHO recommends daily dietary DHA intake of 10-12mg/kg body weight for children 6-24 months, 100-150mg DHA+EPA for children 2-4 years of age or 150-200mg DHA+EPA for children 4-6 years of age. Reference: FAO 2010. Fats and fatty acids in human nutrition. Report of an expert consultation. FAO Food and Nutrition Paper no.91. FAO: Rome.

[4] scGOS : lcFOS (9:1)

[5] Chatchatee P et al. Effects of Growing-Up Milk Supplemented with Prebiotics and LCPUFAs on Infections in Young Children. JPGN 2014; 58(4):428-437

[6] Danone Nutricia ELN is the first Ranked Milk Formula manufacturer both in Sales Value and Sales Volume for these 9 countries (UK, DE, NL, IRL, PL, BEL, CZE/SLO and ROM) during MAT period Dec 2016