Principles of Good Parenting

[IndiaParenting]

What are the principles of good parenting? How to avoid being a dictatorial parent? How to set examples of good behaviour for children?
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[Anjana]

Parenting is a challenge and it cannot be learned through books but by experience. Good parenting helps foster empathy, honesty, self-reliance, cooperation, and cheerfulness. A parent's relationship with his or her child will be reflected in the child's actions -- including child behavior problems. If you don't have a good relationship with your child, they're not going to listen to you. If you have a good relationship with them, you tend to trust them more, listen to their opinions, and agree with them. Loving, spending quality time are essentials of good parenting.

[Preeti Gada]

It is easy for parents to become a dictatorial parent. By enforcing rules and regulation strictly and without listening to the child, parents can be like a dictator. Instead of enforcing rules blindfoldedly, parents should try to explain the relevance of each rule so that the child himself is eager to follow them. Keep pace with your child's development. Your child is growing up.Setting limits helps your child develop a sense of self-control. Encouraging independence helps her develop a sense of self-direction. To be successful in life, she's going to need both.Parents should never hit a child, under any circumstances.

[Riya Jain]

Good parents have expectations they want their child to live up to. The best way to get respectful treatment from your child is to treat him respectfully. Speak to him politely. Respect his opinion. Pay attention when he is speaking to you. Treat him kindly. Try to please him when you can. Children treat others the way their parents treat them. Your relationship with your child is the foundation for her relationships with others.Being an involved parent takes time and is hard work, and it often means rethinking and rearranging your priorities. It frequently means sacrificing what you want to do for what your child needs to do. Be there mentally as well as physically.