Responsibilities of parents in rearing and educating their Kids

Kids Education at Home (Part 1) 

Kids success is the real measure of one’s success

The most beautiful part of life is the one’s childhood. Kids are like flowers. They are tender and a lot of care and attention is required from parental end with great concern and responsibility.

If parents want to see how much successful they are in their lives, they can only do so by looking at their Kids achievement. If Kids are socially, morally, ethically, physically, mentally, and spiritually good, that is the success of parents. Thus, Kids are the real measure of one’s success or failure in life.

The healthy home environment

The home environment is one of the most important factor that has a profound effect on a child's life. From the earliest moments of a child's life, a child depends on his parents to meet his every need. Parents are the first teachers and they play a role of role model for them. Most Kids are fortunate to have the desired home environment full of love and affection from their parents.

However, if the relationship between the parents is strained for any reason, then the child suffers the most. Usually when a child is born, parents put all their activities aside and their first priority is their child. The mutual love and affection of the parents care and protection is the guarantee of the child's prosperity.

Kids imitate style of their parents

Kids do not need blackboards, notes, flip charts, or multimedia to teach ethics in life. Kids learn from the people around them. They are greatly influenced by the style of their parents. Parent’s good habits, sensibility in saying and actions, morality and ethical approach to life have a lasting effect on their Kids’ minds. So in order to teach values to your kids, parents must model them in their life, first.  Parents have to be decently good enough so that their kids have a better start in life. Parents have to practice what they have to preach, what values they want to inculcate in their kids.

Inculcating the values in kids life

Human childhood consists of various stages like infancy, kindergarten, primary education and so on. At each stage, Kids need to be cared for and elevated differently. During infancy, it is important to protect your Kids from infectious diseases and to get them vaccinated regularly. At around 15 months, kids begin to grasp that there are certain social accepted graces. Set the stage now by being polite yourself and helping your child to think about other people's feelings.

In view of that, parents should teach their Kids good manners, etiquette, and valuable literature by creating a better environment in their homes.

The moral duties of parents

It is the moral duty of parents to pound good manners in their kids. Good manners are simply the oils, which lubricates the resistance of interpersonal relations and creates a happy and successful society. Good manners are vital for considering the feelings of other people and being a kind of person that others will like and respect. Good manners demonstrate the best you have to present and encourage others to be their best. Helping your kids in practicing etiquette on each day makes their life more and more pleasant.

When kids are able to join the school, they must be equipped with the essential conventional rules of personal behavior in civil society, with basic principles, etiquette, ethics, and having good attitude towards others. To have good manners, kids must have trained enough at home how to address people politely. They must have learned the words with phrases to communicate their needs.

Parents have to be patient, as kids need time to understand how to have good manners. Slowly and gradually, kids will observe and learn the good manners and will begin to have good manners too. Parents have to set them up for success. Young Kids behave well when they are rested and comfortable.  Always give positive reinforcement to your kids. They must be encourage and praise for their good behavior.

Kids Upbringing and digital age

We live in an age of technology, and technology has become so entrenched in every aspect of life, including the upbringing of Kids. Thus, the responsibilities of raising a child for parents have increased many times over.

Parents should make every effort to create a religious and spiritual atmosphere in their homes. They should refrain from swearing, fighting, and lying. Parents should be very careful when deciding which toy to give their Kids to play with.

Many Kids remain playing with toy guns or weapons. Kids should not be given such toys as they promote aggressive mentality and war rage in them. It is also acknowledged that Kids who play with toy guns are more likely to have a lack of patience. Likewise, they should refrain from watching cartoon or videos that engross scenes of violence and bloodshed. Kids should be allowed to use parental supervised social media with great precautions.

The age of behavioral change

As the child reaches adolescence, the responsibilities of the parents change. At this stage, the child makes friends at school, in the neighborhood and in the community. Parents should become friends with their Kids at this age and guide them in the right path. Additionally, practice basic courtesy, like holding the door open for others, or giving up your seat on public transportation to someone who is elderly or struggling to stand up.

Parents can encourage their Kids to help with household chores and to pray regularly. Parents need to know what kind of peer their child is sitting in and keep an eye on their child's daily activities. In view of the increasing incidence of violence against Kids in our society, it is important that Kids should be made aware of this danger with great care.

It is not possible for your child to be happy all the time. Parents have to accept all the emotions of their kids so that the kids do not become more frustrated when they are sad or angry. Parent’s dealings with their Kids become part of their personality. If you think there is something wrong with your child's behavior, remember that every type of behavior has a way of handling. Kids want to tell you something with this kind of behavior and that's the best way they can say it. So you should try to find the real meaning of such behavior and then help them so that they can express what they are feeling without any hesitation. We must accept all their feelings, if they do not seem right.

We must teach Kids to express their feelings and not worry about what we would do if we were in their place. Remember, your child is not an exercise that you should deal with quickly, nor he is a project you can complete in the best way. Your child is a human being with unique identities and capabilities.

  (Part 2) in next post   Inspired From:

Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World

 1748 by Philip Dormer Stanhope