Why is it important that parents make wise decisions? It is important because these choices not only affect themselves but also affect their children. Parents and caregivers are vital to the development and growth of children. Parents play a crucial role in every stage of childhood and can play a positive role in helping them get the best out of life. The most simplest decisions in a parents life could damage the life of a child. That's why the way parents raise their children play an important role and have different effects on their child's life.
All parents have different views on how they should raise their children and different parenting methods. While having children may be "doing what comes naturally", being a good parent is much more complicated. All a child is looking for is a lot of love and support but there is so much more that goes along with the task you take as a parent.
Parenting should involve spending time with your kids, chatting with them daily, teaching them right from wrong, teaching them manners, teaching them to share, loving them, playing with them, teaching them what respect is and installing moral values in them. (Lane)
Not only does a parent take on the title of a role model, they are also take on the role of being the most important teacher their child will come across in their life. Teaching them love, honor and respect is only the start. Many parents don't seem to understand that they are molding our next generation and that our children take what they learn at home and what they learned growing up and apply it to their lives and how they will raise their children. It's said that children imitate what they hear and see their parents or other adults around them do and say. A good example is...
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If there was a right way of parenting would you want to know which one is a suitable or unsuitable way of raising your children? There are various parenting ways that may be detrimental to your child and it might affect them in an unfortunate way once they have grown up. However, there is always a more efficient way that will have a robust effect on their adult life. There are many ways to raise a child, here are a few examples of different types of parenting. For instance, there is authoritative parenting where they are strict to the point where the child listens to their parents rules, but they also give them the space they need so the child does not feel like they are being suffocated by them. Helicopter parenting is
A parent’s parenting styles are as diverse as the world we live in today. Nowadays, parents only want what is best for their children and their parenting styles plays a crucial role in the development of children which will in the long run, not only effect the child’s childhood years, but later prolong into their adult life as well.
When, it comes to raising a child, a parent doesn’t really have guidelines. They want their kid to be successful, intelligent, with what they need in life to be a good adult. But what do they need? I think three good things that a parent needs to teach their kids are good morals, respect, and independence. If these three things are integrated into a childhood, then I think that that child will be able to become a good human being.
...en it comes to their own parenting skills. However, parents want their children to be successful in their adult life and in the future workforce.
Many parents have multiple children, while working a nine to five job, attending family activities and meetings, and staying on top of bills and home duties. Family life can get hectic and parents may not take the time to realize their importance in their child’s academics. Some parents may be too busy, and others may simply not care, but their involvement in their children’s life is essential. Whether parents or children realize it, involvement of parents in children’s lives positively affects their children’s academic success at all grade levels, including elementary, high school, and even college.
Children need structure. It is a parent’s job to instill structure and rules in their child. Although we need to raise independent children, the life skills taught to children are more important than any style of parenting. Teaching children unconditional love, time management and the proper attitudes, and skills, children grow up confident and feel loved.
What is good parenting? Many think good parenting consists of keeping a close eye on their child but this in many ways can be detrimental to the child. Personally, my mother was not present for most of my childhood. However, it in no way hindered my growth as a child, instead it brought me up and made me very independent at a young age. Similar to reality, literature depicts the complexity of the relationships between a mother and daughter as well. In I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, Maya’s mother abandons her as a young child and is an inconsistent presence in her life. In Emergence: Labeled Autistic by Temple Grandin, Temple’s mother is constantly devoted to her and gives her the best opportunities possible. While both Maya
...stically present the three overarching perspectives that guide today's researchers and practitioners of developmental psychology, David Bjorklund and Carlos Hern? CHILD AND ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT: AN IINTEGRATED APPROACH shows how the major perspectives on human development must be integrated? Rather than presented as contrasting and sometimes contradictory ways of looking at development? In order to meaningfully understand infants, children, and adolescents as well as how they develop.
According to Webster’s dictionary, the definition of parenting is of “the process of raising and educating a child from birth to adulthood.” Have you ever pondered on how different you would be if your parents would have raised you differently? Everyone was raised differently, therefore we all will be different types of parents. We may cherish the way our parents raised and disciplined us, so we’ll utilize those techniques when we become parents. On the other side, we may despise the way our parents raised and disciplined us, therefore we’ll create our own techniques based on what we would have preferred as a child when it comes to raising our children. As a 43 year old mother, I’m proud of the way my parents raised and disciplined me and I’m proud of the way I’ve raised my daughter, nieces and nephews. As a parent, I’ve constantly asked myself, “why is parenting so hard?” At one point in time, I wondered if a mother should automatically know how to handle and raise an infant, if this is her first child. There’s a conflict when it comes to parenting. There’s a significant difference between the biological needs of a child and cultural needs that have been placed by society. For starters, we cannot say that one particular way of parenting is “the right way”. Every parent should trust their techniques of parenting as the best as long as there is no abuse involved. Permissive parenting, Authoritarian parenting and authoritative parenting are the three main parenting styles. Each parenting style is different and produce different types of results. The next few paragraphs will give an overview of these techniques and we’ll be able to compare each.
Overpowering sternness leads may lead to a rebellious child, while passive parenting may lead children to inept for the challenges of adulthood. Parenting requires more than teaching children submissiveness, or building of self-importance. Children learn best from a role model who is admirable. Parenting is a great opportunity to set the course of one’s entire life in the right direction.
There are three major recognized parenting styles: Permissive, Assertive and Neglectful. All carry different characteristics and bring different reactions from the children. Parenting styles such as these can be beneficial to the children. The relationship of each parent and child is totally different, thus there is no one way to parent. The quality of parenting is more important than the quantity of the time spent with the child (Brigid Schulte, March 2015). Parenting styles represents how their parents demand and respond to their children. Parents tend to create their own methodology of teaching as children go through completely different stages in life. People believe that the parents who give their children proper love, nurture, independence and control, have the children who seem to possess higher levels of
“The impact of parenting on us is huge”, strongly correlates with the type of person we are as adults and how we can independently survive. A parent that invests in a strong building foundation such as education, values, confidence, self-worth etc. bring up a child that portrays those traits. Vise versa, a parent that shows a lack of effort, little to no time, no values etc. builds a weak foundation that eventually turns into the stepping stone to a weak mindset for the development of a child. I agree with the phrase “The impact of parenting on us is huge” because eventually we turn into our parents, so to speak.
The first responsibility that I think is very important is being a good example for your kids. Parents are examples for their kids whether they like it or not. My boys watch and copy everything that I do, and even if I don’t think their listening they are listening. If they see me finishing school and working a good job that’s what they will expect to do themselves because that is all that they know. Children are like sponges. I want to show my kids how to be a good person by being a good person myself. As a parent I want my children to know that they can be anything they want to be, but at the same time I am controlling their physical and moral environment so that they can be good people. I want them to be in an environment where they can develop habits of honesty, generosity, and responsibility.