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Parenting Tips | How Parent’s Play An Important Role In Child Overall Development?



This topic is so close to my heart because I can completely relate my life to this topic.

I was born and bought up in a small town with a joint family. In a joint family, a child gets lots of care and attention all the time. Everyone attempts to pamper you and protects you from everything. It seems so worthy initially because every time there are lots of people around you to take care of every wish you have in your life. Your life gives the impression of a fairy-tale.

My life was so pleasant till my post-graduation; I was in so protective environment. I never had an idea about the reality of the outside world exactly. My complete routine revolves around my family, friends, and studies only.

But when I stepped out after my post-graduation for a job, then I realized that I missed a lot of things till 20+ years of my life. 

I was less confident, introverted, and not comfortable while conversing with anyone except my close circle. On the contrary, my friends are so confident and full of excitement for a completely new journey of life.

But why there is a huge difference between us? Why I am not so excited and confident like my friends?

Then I realized the difference between the environments we had in our families.

Here, the role of parents plays an important role in the overall development of a child. It is the right guidance of parents that develops the character of the child. Parenting is an ongoing job. The proper role of the parent is to provide an environment of encouragement, support, and access to activities that enable the child to master key developmental tasks.

The parents’ roles are of the maximum importance for the personality development of the children. Basic traditional roles of being a parent are: nurture and educate children, discipline them, manage home and financially support family, whereas modern roles brought active participation of parents in children overall development. The main idea is that parenting style must be child-centered and should aim to optimal growth and development of their children, to help them have adequate biological, social, psychological, and emotional growth.

Take Care of the Biological Needs of Children

The first role of the parents is to take care of their child’s biological needs. Providing physical care to fulfill the needs of the child imply: proper food, fresh air, good lighting, enough sleep, recreation time, etc.

Socio-Cultural Development

Children observe everything at home. How family members are interacting with each other? How arguments are settled in the family? It teaches them a variety of good values that are imbibed and crucial to growing up. The child learns how to behave with other kids, playing to a common goal, team spirit, picking the right friends and a lot more.

Mental Development

Parenting styles help the child learn innovatively, accepting failures and overcoming them, understanding discipline, accepting feedback, and the award-and-punishment concept. It governs their response to stimuli, thus molding their minds.


Take Care of the Social-Emotional Skills

Another duty of you as a parent to help your child in acquiring emotional wellbeing. There are positive factors, such as praise, encouragement, calm talk and response, 
affectionate attention, etc. that will help to build healthy emotions. Each child is unique, don’t compare your child with others (especially when you observe a weakness), rather help him deal with being different and even encourage him to be unique.

Assist your children in learning how to express their feelings and desires and help them develop healthy relationships. If you want to raise an emotionally healthy young adult, be calm and emotionally supportive. Teach your child how to control and change their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors according to the situation.

Discipline Gently

Understand what a child is communicating directly or indirectly by his attitudes and behaviors. A major aspect of parenting is to establish and maintain proper communication with your child in the family by sustaining a certain level of discipline.

How you communicate with your child in odd situations, matters a lot? Always have a calm reaction, respond consistently, and appropriately, sensitively, and gently give corrective feedback to your child when his behavior is inappropriate. A calm and emphatic talk helps children become conscious of their mistakes. An upset reaction increases the tendency of a child to defend him. 

Support and Motivate the Child

If you want your child to be successful and to achieve his goals, encourage and motivate him. Positive motivation and encouragement are a must, love your kids both when they succeed and when they fail. 

Teach the child to look at failure as a situation of learning and not as a tragic situation. Listen to them and be supportive, encourage instead of crushing the child’s capacity to say no, at all costs. 

Spiritual Development

Understanding religion, prayer, knowing right from wrong, being empathetic, having the right ethical values, valuing elders or Youngers, and strengthening goal-setting liberate the free spirit in children. Teaching your children to be more accepting and believing in the greater good can help them gain a sense of purpose. Try not to bound them to any particular religion and let them explore spirituality on their own.

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