According to Wikipedia ”Parenting (or child rearing) is a process of promoting and supporting the physical, emotional, social, financial, and intellectual development of a child from infancy to adulthood”. For me I believe that parenting is a full time task and all involving. To make progress in parenting, parents must consciously take steps and make decisions that will guarantee real success. There are some basic requirements for an effective parenting; these requirements are the essentials of parenting. No doubt parenting requires some basic skills.
ESSENTIALS #1: Know that every child is unique – Children are God’s creation, God in the nature of His creation do not mass produce; the children are of same parents but different creature. Every child is a one of its kind and not one of their kinds.
ESSENTIAL #2: Make effort to understand their uniqueness. This is a task every parent must face; until their uniqueness is well appreciated, no progress is possible in parenting. Spend time and mental resources to understand each child as an individual.
ESSENTIAL #3: Accept their uniqueness. Once this uniqueness is discovered, learn to live with it and do not be preoccupied with changing this uniqueness.
ESSENTIAL #4: Deal with each child according to their uniqueness.
ESSENTIAL #5: Never compare any child to others. The error of comparison is that you end up matching strength with weakness. The child cannot be any other but him/herself.
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