Parenting is a process of raising, protecting, and nurturing children to ensure their healthy development into adults.Â
Why is it so important?
As we all know, a child's first teacher is his or her parents. Whether it's about the way the child talks, behaves, has an attitude, or other things related to the environment, It all starts in the family environment, and the most important role in the family environment is that of the father and mother. That's where parenting is needed.
There are four types of parenting applied by parents :
1. Uninvolved
: The relationship between parents and children is less warm, parents are not much involved or tend to be passive in children's lives, and parents tend to keep their distance. However, parents still pay attention to and provide children's basic needs such as food, education, housing, and others.
2. Indulgent
: Namely parenting in which parents are very involved in the child's life, but tend not to direct the clear.
3. Authoritative
: Namely parenting by making rules, being firm, but remaining flexible and providing support, and training children to regulate themselves.
4. Authoritarian
: Parents are very controlling the behavior of children, but do not maintain the warmth of the relationship with the child.
These four parenting styles can actually be applied alternately according to the situation and conditions at hand. Parents must be able to recognize the right situation to apply parenting. The key to proper parenting is communication. In this way, parents and children can understand each other. Parents can understand children's needs and try to identify their talents and interests so that they can direct children appropriately. Parents cannot carelessly raise their children, so that parents can understand their children's character well and ensure the health and safety of their children, as well as prepare them to live as productive adults.
This article's key points are as follows :
• Parents need to pay attention to the most appropriate parenting pattern applied in the family environment, especially at an early age and at the beginning of their development.
• One form of parenting that can be applied by parents is democratic parenting, because it can have a positive influence on the formation of children's self-concepts.
• Avoid giving negative stigmas or labels to children, such as the words "stupid", "useless", "incapable", "ugly", and other degrading words, even if the child makes mistakes, because it will affect the formation of negative self-concepts in children.
Once again, every child certainly needs attention, affection, and guidance from both parents. Because guidance from parents is different from guidance from teachers or other people around them. Parents have a significant influence on their children's cognitive development as well as their social and personal lives. As a result, learning about parenting is critical for anyone who plans to become a parent or for those who are already parents.
