What wonders can parenting do in a child’s life?
A kid’s upbringing influences their life in a million ways. Parenting is the hardest job on the planet. Whether one is a new parent or an experienced one, every single day with kids is an unknown territory.
According to a Japanese survey conducted to discover the effects of different parenting methods, kids who get positive attention and care from their parents have higher salaries, higher levels of happiness, academic achievement and a robust sense of morality.
Because it is so important, one must take extra care when they are dealing with kids. Even the tiniest things may leave an imprint on your kid’s mind.
In this Article, tips on good parenting are discussed, as it impacts a lot of things in the coming years of your kid’s life.
Parenting consists of three important Components.
Building an emotional connect: Kids tend to experience an emotional drift from their parents as they enter their teenage years. It is however crucial on the part of parents to take out time and connect with their kids by showing Affection and Acceptance. This helps in building trust and demonstrates empathetic understanding. An important aspect of parenting is to create a safe space for your kid so that they can share their problems without any fear or hesitation. Building on a friendly relation with the kids assures and makes them feel safe and comfortable.
Deciding upon the kid’s autonomy: Autonomy refers to a person’s authority to take decisions. This is again a very crucial aspect of parenting because setting healthy boundaries fosters the kids’ decision making skills from an early age. Parents should show trust and support while deciding upon healthy boundaries of autonomy for kids.
For example: Giving enough space to kids to decide their leisure time or hobbies, choose their career path, and so on.
Keeping a check over your kid’s behaviour: Be it monitoring your kid’s academic scores or supervising their play time, it’s necessary to ensure discipline. Parents should try and strike a balance between being a ‘tough parent’ or an ‘easy-going’ one depending upon the situation and the maturity level of their kid.
For example, getting feedback from teachers during parent-teacher meetings.
How does good Parenting affect your kids’ future?
- Increases a kid’s self-esteem
Parents act as mirrors to their kids. When kids perceive themselves via their parents’ eyes, they begin to establish a sense of self-confidence. Your kids pick up on your tone of voice, body language and facial expressions. More than anything else, a parent’s words and actions affect their developing self-esteem.
· Recognition for success is important for kids, even for small affairs. It will develop a sense of pride in them.
· Allowing them to do things on their own will make them feel capable, independent and powerful.
· Belittling comments or unfair comparisons of one kid to another, on the other hand, will make them feel worthless.
2. Communicates better
Kids that receive adequate parental attention end up becoming better communicators. They express their feelings better as well as understand others’. Kids need to be heard, especially by their parents.
For kids, you are the world to them. They look for your approval and disapproval all the time.
This makes them understand the ways of better communication, a life skill that holds their career growth to a great extent.
3. Takes on challenges well
Kids who grow up in an environment that is appreciative and nurturing, tend to take on challenges really well. Because they grow up in such a supportive environment, they believe they can achieve anything they set their minds to.
It’s no secret; it’s the same with adults. Let it be an adult or a kid, true support is all they need to be successful.
Tell a kid he can’t do something, he surely can’t; tell a kid he can, he will for sure! This belief develops a kid’s inner grit. They are like a blank canvas. They often reflect their environment.
4. Encourages good-behaviour in kids
Another critical thing in good parenting is to praise kids often. Sometimes, parents lose their cool and end up passing passive criticism to their kids. One should be careful of that as it may leave a life-long impression on them.
Make it a point to discover something to praise your kids. When they did something good, be generous with your incentives like hugs and congratulations!
Such appreciations encourage them to continue such good behaviour. This also helps them to cope with social life easily.
5. Holistic brain development
Parents and caregivers may encourage healthy brain development by conversing with, playing with and caring for their children. Kids learn best by observing and imitating their parents. Chatting and playing with them builds a kid’s abilities and interests.
A closely knit Parent-kid relationship acts as a strong catalyst for early Childhood Development.
These are some ways good parenting can do wonders in both kids’ and parents’ lives. When parents become such a powerful support system in a kid’s life, they are equipped in every way possible to become capable individuals in the future.
Another very vital aspect is providing your child a great education that suits their nature and brings out their true potential and helps them to become the very best versions of themselves.
Just visit the ALLEN IntelliBrain website to apply for a free one-to-one counselling session with a childhood development expert to know how best you can help your kid.
