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What is responsible parenthood?
- Responsibility parenthood is an ability of parents to detect the need of happiness and desire of children and helping them to become responsible and responsible children.
- It is the shared responsibility of husband and wife to determine and achieve the desired number, spacing, and timing of their children according to their own family life aspirations, and concerns.
- Responsible parenthood doesn’t limit only on fulfilling the demand of children and rearing them up properly but goes beyond that
Qualities of responsible parenthood:
- Marriage should be done at the right age as right age at marriage helps to start a new life and new family in a right time.
- The size of a family should be decided by both parents together.
- Being responsible parents also refers to becoming parents at the right age where both of them are physically and mentally mature to start a family.
- Proper spacing between the births of children is also necessary for health of a mother and child. This also assures that every child receives the attention and care they deserve.
10 principles of the responsible parenting:
1. What you do matters
- This is one of the most important principles
- Children learn from the parents
- They see, observe, imitate and adapt the behavior of the parents
- One needs to act the same way that they want their children to be
2. You cannot be too loving
- Everybody loves their child
- But the love of parents should never spoil them
- In fact it’s the things like leniency, material possession that spoils them
- Parents need to be careful on that matters
3. Be involved in your child’s life
- It is necessary for parents to be involved in child’s life in both physical way and mental way
- Parents needs to talk to them and also listen them carefully
- Patents should manage to provide at least 15 minutes of undivided attention towards children every day.
4. Adapt your parenting to fit your child
- Parents needs to keep the track and pace with the child’s development
- Parents need to understand the children milestone as per the age
5. Establish and set rules
- Parent need to maintain and regulate the child’s behavior.
- Strict actions and punishment may also be required.
- Parents can set up the rules and make children follow them.
- Rules can simply vary from table rules to curfew rules.
6. Foster your child’s independence
- A responsible parent needs to teach their children self-control and encourage independence.
- Parents should teach them to make responsible decisions and shouldn’t frequently intervene in their choices.
7. Be consistent
- Consistency is the key to disciplines.
- Rules for children shouldn’t change from day to day. This makes the children confuse.
- Before that, the parents need to make sure that the rules made are logical and based on valid reason and are not just imposition of power.
8. Avoid harsh discipline
- Parents should never adopt the harsh way.
- They should never hit a child, under any circumstances.
- This has negative impacts on child.
- Punishment should be mild and used carefully.
9. Explain your rules and decisions
- Good parents have clear expectations
- They communicate this to their children in clear way and explain them as per their age.
10. Treat your child with respect
- Children should be treated with equal respect.
- Their views, opinions should be listened and valued.
- Speak politely.
- Treat him kindly.
- This is the best way to teach them how to treat and respect others.
Necessities of Responsible parenthood:
a) Maintain healthy family size
- Responsible parenting is concerned with the maintaining the desired size of family, maintaining the spacing and having desired family size
- The decision is made based on the health status, social and economic concerns
- This will further help parents in responsibly handling the situation in the future and also prepares them to face challenge
b) Support
- Children require the support of the parents
- Responsible parenting will help in building the supportive relation between children and parents
- Parents would be able to support their children in every steps of their life
c) Morality
- Children learns from the parents
- They become what their parents are
- Responsible parenting is necessary to teach children the right behavior, culture the healthy habits and morals and also to guide in right direction throughout.
d) Others
- Encouraging independent thought. It is duty of parents for better controlling over the children.
- Responsible parenting is also necessary to avoid the financial burden and stay prepared.
References and for More Information:
https://passnownow.com/civic-education-responsible-parenthood/
http://www.karinu.org/sites/default/files/PARENTING%20TIPS_0.pdf
https://www.medicinenet.com/parenting/article.htm#what_are_the_10_principles_of_good_parenting
http://ftisb.org/articles-and-resources/principles-of-effective-parenting/
http://www.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_importance_of_responsible_parenthood_in_national_development
https://www.importantindia.com/24220/parenthood/
https://www.modernghana.com/lifestyle/9178/responsible-parenting.html
