The10 Principles of Good Parenting
What is parenting?
Parenting is the process of promoting and supporting the physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development of a child from infancy to adulthood.
Parenting refers to the aspects of raising a child aside from the biological relationship.
Being a parent is one of the most fulfilling experiences a person can have. The most important thing a parent can give their child, however, is a sense of being loved.
The goal of parenting is to help your child develop into a decent, self-confident human being, and NOT to show them who’s the boss in your family or to instill fear!
Good parenting helps foster empathy, honesty, self-reliance, self-control, kindness, cooperation, and cheerfulness. It also promotes intellectual curiosity, motivation, and desire to achieve.
Principles of Good Parenting
1. What you do matters.
This is one of the most important principles.
What you do makes a difference.
Your kids are watching you.
3. Be involved in your child’s life
- Rearrange your priorities
- Sacrifice what you want to do for what your child needs to do
- Be there mentally as well as physically.
5. Establish and set rules
Manage your child’s behavior while he is young.
Teach him how to tell right from wrong.
Consequences for bending the rules.
7. Be consistent
Your rules mustn’t vary from day to day.
When parents aren’t consistent, children get confused.
9. Be consistent
What is obvious to you may not be evident to a 12-year-old
2. You cannot be too loving.
It is simply not possible to spoil a child with love.
A spoiled child is not a result of showing him too much love.
4. Adapt your parenting to fit your child
Keep pace with your child’s development.
Consider how age is affecting the child’s behavior.
6. Adapt your parenting to fit your child
Encouraging independence helps develop a sense of self-direction.
It is normal for children to push for autonomy.
8. Adapt your parenting to fit your child
Encouraging independence helps develop a sense of self-direction.
It is normal for children to push for autonomy.
10. Treat your child with respect
Children treat others the way their parents treat them.
Give your child the same courtesies you would give to anyone else.
Parenting styles
Authoritative parenting.
Authoritarian parenting.
Permissive parenting
Uninvolved parenting
