Parent and Child Guidance
Expert’s Guidance in quality parenting is a beautiful development for the modern era.
Parents are role models for a child and it is imperative on the part of parents to understand that ‘children do what they do and not what they say’. Relationship and harmony between mother and father and positive nurturing atmosphere at home is of paramount importance for the excellent growth of the child. Therefore Parents need to spend some quality time together to understand each other before the birth of the child.
Every adult who cares for children has a responsibility to guide, correct and socialize them toward appropriate behaviours. Positive guidance and discipline are crucial because they promote children’s self-control, teach children responsibility and help children make thoughtful choices. The more effective adult caregivers are at encouraging appropriate child behaviour, the less time and effort adults will spend correcting children’s misbehaviour. Using physical force, threats and put-downs can interfere with a child’s healthy development and there is strong evidence that spanking can have negative effects on children and leads to rebellion.
Effective guidance and discipline focus on the development of the child. They also preserve the child’s self-esteem and dignity. Actions that insult or belittle are likely to cause children to view their parents negatively, which can inhibit learning and can teach the child to be unkind to others. However, actions that acknowledges the child’s efforts and progress, no matter how slow or small, is likely to encourage healthy development.