PART ONE: GENERAL
KNOWLEDGE
When most people
think of parenting, they picture changing diapers, messy feeding time and
chasing a screaming child through a crowded grocery store, shopping mall, bus
terminals, children school party, the neighborhood or the market place.
Some other people
think, it is majority having the requirements for meeting the basic survival
needs of the child without minding that their behavioural or societal influence
on their child or children as the case may be determines how well these
children turn out in their personality, emotional development, behavioural
habits and a host of other factors.
Parenting is the most
complex and all-important activity on the planet. To appreciate this timely subject
is to first consider and understand who a parent is, types/categories of
parents. Who should be parented and then what is parenting and the basic skills
required for parenting.
Who is a parent? A
parent is one of two persons, male and female who gives birth, nurtures and
raises a child.
Who is a child? A
child is anyone between zero and the ages of eighteen according to United
Nations child rights convention. A child’s rights include:
- The right to love
- The right to
protection and understanding i.e. a right to be protected from neglect.
- The right to play
- The right to develop
physically and mentally in a healthy manner
- The right to know and
live in his/her culture
- The right to
protection in times of war
- The right of
expression
- The right to protection
from work that threatens health, education and development
A parent
is a care giver offspring in their own specie. In humans, a parent is the
caretaker of a child (where a child refers to offspring.) The common type of
parent is usually mothers, the fathers and grandparents.
The word of God
addressed Mothers in Prov. 29:15
The word of God
addressed Fathers in Eph. 6:4
The word of God
addressed Grandsons in Deut. 6:2 indicative of the presence of grandparents.
Parents are the
child’s first educators yet they received little or no training for this vital
role. Yee! That is why the subject of parenting is the key for a healthy
society.
Broadly speaking –
Anyone who is shores in the raising of a child is a parent. Parents may be
Biological, adoptive, foster or single. Thus, parenting refers to the aspect of
raising a child aside from the biological ship.
Every person under
your care, your reach, control, instructions are your responsibility, your
maid, that adopted child who have no idea where his/her parents are, that
orphan who comes around you because he/she lost his parents, that younger
couple who looks up to you as a parent, teacher, or a mentor are your
responsibility. So parent them.
Parenting is
therefore the process of actively providing a safe, secure, nurturing
environment for your child and children under your care and control.
Parenting is also the
process of promoting and supporting the physical, emotional, educational, social,
intellectual, financial and above all spiritual development of a child from
infancy to adulthood thereby, preparing them for life as socially responsible
and productive individuals who will impact their world or society positively.
From the foregoing,
we can say that parenting is the ultimate long term investment on a child.
Parents! Be prepared to put far more into it than you can get out of it at
least for some time.
Good parenting is the
commitment combined active effort of the father & mother, parents at taking
personal responsibility to be the first and mentors of their wards from the
womb until they are old enough to take care of themselves as compassionate,
courageous, respective and purposeful adults who will live by virtue-based
boundaries paused unto them via good parents.
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God Bless You.
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