Parenting is the process of raising and educating a child
from birth until adulthood. It has recently become a very
popular topic due to the necessity of clarifying the process
of upbringing a child at home by parents as the opposite
to the formal education of a child at school. A teacher-student
relationship is different from the parent-child relationship.
At school teachers give a child general literacy and scientific
knowledge; at home parents give a child general wisdom of
life as parents themselves understand it.
The term "parenting" is a derivative of the word
"parent" taken as a verb. When people say "to
parent" a child it means "to be a parent,"
or "to fulfill parental duties." Since everyone
who has a child has to parent him or she has their own view
on what their parental duties are. Generally, the majority
of parents admit that those duties are to provide for the
basic needs of a child - the child's need for security and
development. This Implies physical, intellectual, and emotional
security and development.
Modern models of parenting
Parenting typically utilizes tools of reward and punishment
method, but most child development experts now agree that
corporal punishment is not an effective behavior modification
tool. In some jurisdictions corporal punishment (e.g., spanking
or whipping) has been prohibited by law. Many parents have
adopted non-physical approaches to child discipline, for
example time-out. The other "civilized" forms
of discipline behavioral control, structure, accountability,
Parental supervision, etc.
Parenting For Everyone"
Providing physical security
Providing physical security refers to a safety of a child's
body, safety of a child's life.
Providing physical development: Developing a child physically
refers to providing conditions to a healthy growth of a
child.
Providing intellectual security: Intellectual security
refers to the conditions, in which a child's mind can develop.
If the child's dignity is safe, that is nobody encroaches
upon a child physically or verbally, then he is able to
learn.
To provide "no-fear," "no-threat, "no-verbal
abuse" environment
Providing intellectual development .
Intellectual development means providing opportunity to
a child to learn - to learn about laws of nature and moral
laws.
• Reading, writing, calculating etc.
• Intellectual games
• Social skills and etiquette
• Moral and spiritual development
Providing emotional security
To provide emotional security to a child is to help protect
and shield the child's fragile psyche. It is to provide
a safe loving environment, give a child a sense of being
loved, being needed, welcomed.
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