What are somethings you can do to be a good parent?

Question

I'm not pregnant or anything I just need help with my homework for my health class.

Answer 1

LISTEN to your kids, I mean, REALLY listen and hear what they are saying.
Keep COMMUNICATION lines always open. Communicating is a two-way street, so make sure you're available and easy to come to.
PARTICIPATE! Don't be a "sayer" only! Be a "doer"!! GET INVOLVED with your child's school, interests, life.
SET BOUNDARIES! Kids need boundaries to feel safe and learn respect.
Go to church every Sunday WITH YOUR CHILD!! Then when they are teenagers, they'll be less , well, let's just say they'll be less excruciating to deal with!

Answer 2

Being a good parent involves a variety of things. Care for your children. When they are sick, help them. When they are hurt, help them. A good parent should always support their kids and provide as many opportunities as possible to their child. Most important of all, a parent should be actively involved in their child's life and know what is going on. Parents should help children with their homework and know what children are doing, rather than watching television while kids, being curious as they are, are diverted by many distractions such as the Internet which can lead to trouble.

Answer 3

Put the child's needs before yours.

BUT! Keep in mind there should be limitations so not to spoil or over compensate your child.

Keep your language G rated.
Avoid arguing in the presence of the child. (unless this is towards the child in the effect to only show the child that what he or she has done is or was wrong.) But never be violent about it.
Avoid drinking or smoking in front of the child.

Be sure to find a some what firm morale and value base to raise the kid on.

And always love the kid.

Just a few things.

Answer 4

Being a good parent starts early.

A mom needs to nurse her child on demand to provide the best physical and emotional health and brain power to her child. She needs to hold her baby when the baby wants to be held.

From this, the child learns that 1)mommy (and the world) can be trusted and that 2)the child him/herself can make things happen in the world. (I'm sad, I cry, mommy comes= I'm strong and can make things happen.)

Research done for 50 years, by Ainsworth and now by the NICHD, shows that more than 10 hours a week separation from mommy - even if the substitute caregiver is daddy or mary poppins - has grave implications for a child's intellect, attachment, emotional health, and physical health.

One reason separation (including at night, as in crib use) is so damaging is cortisol. Humans evolved to be stressed by their mother's absence. When an infant or toddler copes with mommy's absence, it's brain floods with cortisol. This hormone makes the child more likely to be depressed or anxious, impairs learning, and causes children to grow into easily stressed adults.

Another reason it's so damaging is that trust issue - it must be successfully resolved for an infant to move on to other stages of development with confidence and a sense of inner worth. Churchill was a great man who accomplished much, but he wrote that he was hounded by the black dog of despair caused by the fact that he was nanny, rather than mother, raised.

Another reason mom has to be there to be a good parent is kids need to be taught how to be a person in our culture; ie they need to be socialized. Many people think their kids need 'socializing' and so think day care is good. Socialization does not come from friends; it must by definition come from the people who already know the culture. Look around and you can see everywhere the impact of huge numbers of children being raised by no one.

So, there's the foundation: being there and being aware of infant/human development so that one can give a child what's needed. This strong foundation requires the mother to have a partner and for this and so many reasons, kids do better with two parents than with one.

In addition, never hit, try not to yell, teach the child self-discipline with logical consequences. Read to your child lots, build with blocks with them, take them for walks, play board games, card games, and imaginative games with your child a lot.

Listen to them, guide them, have high expectations that are reasonably matched to the development and capabilities. Show them how to be kind, hard-working, polite, and generous by being kind, hard-working, polite, and generous to and around and for them.

Answer 5

for me, this is huge. It doesn't matter how much you love your children, that does not make you a good parent. As a parent, one of your many jobs, is to take your child, and help to mold them in to a responsible, respectful, productive member of society. I have a great relationship with my 3 children, but first priority, is to guide them, to teach them, not to be their best friend. It is ok to tell a child no.

Answer 6

I think that it's important to be an example of the kind of person that you wish for your child to become. If you don't want your children to smoke, don't smoke. If you don't want your children to drink, don't drink. If you want your children to be able to get along with others, learn to get along with others yourself.

My Dad used to always say "I'm not your friend, I'm your father"... and it used to make me so angry... but now that I'm older I can appreciate where he was coming from. He couldn't always be "the nice guy" because he had to be my guide and my disciplinarian. He was always there when it counted and he always said what he meant and meant what he said. It provided clear boundaries for me... and I think clear boundaries are very important for children to feel safe.

Answer 7

Everything there saying, plus make sure you get involved in their lives. Be familiar with their favorite TV Shows, who their friends are, favorite singers, etc. When you show interest in the things they love, they know that you actually care.

Answer 8

Showing unconditional love to your child.
Consistency in discipline...teaching them right from wrong.
Providing a stable, safe home.
Spending quality time with your child.
Keeping the communication lines open!!!!

Answer 9

Raise them with respect for others, their selves and authority. Raise them to "listen and obey", be consistent with the rules you put into place, have rules. Raise them to be responsible..that every thing you do has an effect--good or bad and they have to learn to deal with the choices they make.

Answer 10

you can be a good parent by simply listening to your children, let them know you will always be there, don't judge too quickly and let them know no matter what that you love them unconditionally and that you're not just their parent but also their best friend