Effective Parents Need Two Qualities

There is a great deal conspiring against parents tomay face. Lack of faith and self-belief leads to
raise healthy, well-adjusted children. hildhood is shrinkingoutsourcing of parenting and also to a propensity to
in a social sense, free play is not valued and childrenoverprotect and compensate when life doesn't go
are targeted commercially in ways that are notchildren's way.
always in their best interests.At a time when parental confidence is low and as a
Parents could do with some moral support, as it were,community we don't always look out for the best
from schools and other organisations as well asinterests of children courage and faith are qualities
information and education on a range of child-relatedparents need in spades.
issues.Parents also need to get good at the basics of
There are two qualities that are essential to modernparenting and child-rearing.
effective parenting? They are:Significant UK research shows that children's
1.Courage: Parents need courage to swim against theachievement levels at school correlated with parents
tide. It's not easy to stand up to pester power ofwith a strong foundation set of parenting skills. In fact,
children and withstand the pressure exerted by peerscurrent thinking is that the best way to significantly
and media to raise children in certain ways. If youimpact on education standards is to improve the
come from another culture it takes courage tofoundation skills of parents.
continue some of your own family customs whileThese foundation skills include confidence-building,
integrating a new set of customs and practices.behaviour management, communication and
2.Faith: Parents need faith in their own ability toteam-building skills. Simply, when the basics of parenting
influence and raise children as well as faith in children'sare consistently applied these are the optimal
abilities to prevail despite some of the difficulties theyconditions for raising kids.