Friday, December 4, 2009

What are Parenting?


Parenting is the process of promoting and supporting the physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development of a child from infancy to adulthood. Parenting refers to the activity of raising a child rather than the biological relationship.

Need and Parenting Task

Physical security – the safety of a child's body and life.
• Provide physical safety: shelter, clothes, nourishment
• To protect a child from dangers; physical care
• To care for a child's health

Physical development – appropriate conditions for a healthy growth of a child
• To provide a child with the means to develop physically
• To train the body of a child, to introduce to exercise
• To develop habits of health

Intellectual security – the conditions in which a child's mind can develop
• Provide an atmosphere of peace and justice and respect to one's dignity
• Provide an environment without fear, threat, and abuse

Intellectual development – providing opportunity to a child to learn
• Reading, writing, calculating etc.
• Support and/or provide school related learning
• Teach social skills and etiquette
• Moral and spiritual development. As well as creating an ethics and value systems with social norms that contribute to the child's beliefs, culture; and customs

Emotional security – to help protect a child's psyche
• Provide a safe loving environment
• Give a child a sense of being loved, being needed, welcomed
• Emotional support, encouragement
• Attachment, caressing, hugging, touch, etc.

Emotional development – developing the child's ability to love, care, help, etc.
• Show empathy and compassion to younger and older, weaker and sicker, etc.
• Caring for others, helping grandparents, etc.

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