PART ONE: GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
When most people think of parenting, they picture changing diapers, messy feeding time and chasing a screaming child through a crowded grocery store, shopping mall, bus terminals, children school party, the neighborhood or the market place.
When most people think of parenting, they picture changing diapers, messy feeding time and chasing a screaming child through a crowded grocery store, shopping mall, bus terminals, children school party, the neighborhood or the market place.
Some other people think, it is majority having the requirements for meeting the basic survival needs of the child without minding that their behavioural or societal influence on their child or children as the case may be determines how well these children turn out in their personality, emotional development, behavioural habits and a host of other factors.
Parenting is the most complex and all-important activity on the planet. To appreciate this timely subject is to first consider and understand who a parent is, types/categories of parents. Who should be parented and then what is parenting and the basic skills required for parenting.
Who is a parent? A parent is one of two persons, male and female who gives birth, nurtures and raises a child.
Who is a child? A child is anyone between zero and the ages of eighteen according to United Nations child rights convention. A child’s rights include:
- The right to love
- The right to protection and understanding i.e. a right to be protected from neglect.
- The right to play
