Parenting
Parenting Starts Even Long Before the Baby Arrives
The process of raising children and educating them from birth till
they reach adulthood and even beyond at times falls under the domain
of parenting. Sometimes, parents are unable or unwilling to provide
such care and the care is thus entrusted to close relatives such as
older siblings, uncles and aunts or grandparents. There are also cases
when it is performed by adoptive parents, foster parents as well as
institutions and even godparents.
Physical, Social and Moral Development of the Child
Parenting includes providing physical care, reliable shelter, education,
medical care, physical safety as well as nourishment. There is also
a social aspect which entails providing emotional support, love, play
and physical touch as well as social skills and etiquette. The child
needs to also be taught ethics and value systems and its moral and spiritual
development must also be adequately addressed.
Parenting also involves a financial cost in terms of money spent in
child support by custodial or non-custodial parents or by the state,
and sometimes, insurance coverage is required to pay for the child’s
education. There are many different methods of parenting that utilize
rewards, praise, as well as discipline to control the child’s behavior.
Before the Birth
There is also prenatal parenting in which, during pregnancy; the unborn
child is affected by decisions of the parents such as lifestyle choices.
For instance, the health and diet decisions of the mother can impact
the unborn child both positively and negatively. Parenting actually
begins when the mother nurtures the child before actual birth, and according
to scientific evidence, it is believed that from the sixth month and
maybe earlier, the unborn baby can hear, feel, sense as well as be aware
of its surroundings. Such evidence certainly leads one to conclude that
parenting begins prior to birth.
There are several stages which begin with prenatal parenting and continue
during the different life stages of the growth of the child including
infancy, toddler, preschooler, elementary and middle school years, adolescence,
young adults and finally, adulthood.
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