It's not only children who grow. Parents do too.
-Daphne Joyce Maynard, an American novelist, and journalist.
So, your child is a senior school student now. How fast does the time fly? Don’t you sometimes wish they would become those small cute poster babies again? If you remember parenting them during their childhood days they posed different sets of problems than what you have now. So as Daphne Joyce Maynard has said, you as a parent, are also growing with your children. Just remember that a time will come when you will smile over these problems and how you could solve them.
What is parenting?
Cambridge dictionary gives its meaning as “The raising of children and all the responsibilities and activities that are involved in it”. A detailed analysis of Parenting is given in my blog article “7.Top 10 ways to make you a Good Parent”. Link for the same is: eduofday.blogspot.com
Education
Education gets prime importance at this stage as this is the stage of building their future. Then their studies need more of their focus. I have dealt with comprehensive details of this subject in my two series of articles on Secondary and Senior Secondary Education. Please read these. I have posted these on this space earlier. Each of these is a three-article series titled “Discover Secondary Education” and “Ultimate Understanding of Senior Secondary Education”. These can also be read on my blog-Education2020. The link is: eduofday.blogspot.com
Common attributes of Good Parenting
There are some basic qualities of parenting that remain constant at all times. These are as follows:
Love and Care: Parental love and care are most important for their children. Do take proper care of their health with an emphasis on a nutritious diet, exercise regimen, consulting doctor in case of any trouble, and regular inquiry about their well-being.
Healthy Relationship: A healthy relationship between parents and their children is an all-time requirement. It is built by keeping the communication channels open in an atmosphere of love.
Discipline: Discipline becomes all the more important at this stage of their life. Therefore, it is a very important parental duty to ensure discipline in their children’s life.
Quality Time: Parents must ensure to spend quality time with their children regularly. In fact, it is all the more important as they grow up.
Respect: Mutual respect from both sides makes the relations healthier.
Responsibility: Grown-up children should be made to feel responsible by assigning appropriate tasks to them. Care needs to be taken that these tasks should not eat into their important study time.
Regular follow up of education: Some parents may not find it easy to teach their children at these levels. However, that does not stop them from taking a follow-up of their studies on a regular basis.
A glimpse of the parenting issues at this stage
Do you find dealing with your grown-up children, maddening at times? Most probably, your answer would be YES. “Oh Papa, I am going to a movie.” “Momma, buy me that dress. I have to attend a party. It is so urgent.” “What’s the problem with Rohan, or Roshni or Smita…. Why can’t I meet him/ her more often.”
There are endless demands and plentiful uneasy questions. Sometimes, you feel your patience is being put to its most difficult test. So, what is really the solution? It is mentioned in the sentence quoted at the top. The parents also need to grow up with their children. The role of parents undergoes a change in different phases of their children’s age. This article attempts to address the issues that keep surfacing before the parents of these grown-up children.
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