Importance of Responsible Parenthood (2)

In continuation of the article Responsible Parenthood (1) https://read.cash/@Gabbie77/responsible-parenthood-1-bb9cfd82 which was about;

• what is Responsible Parenthood?

• Parenting as an enormous and huge responsibilities

• How Parenting can shape the life of a child

• Factors that are responsible for all round development of a child

• Parental factors as the utmost important one

• Responsible Parenthood resulting into Good Leaders of tomorrow in the society

• Parent as an immediate role model to their children

• Responsible Parenthood, Responsible Society

In this article I will be writing on the roles of responsible parents and the importance of responsible parenthood

Responsible parenthood suggests the responsibilities of parents to guide, protect and provide for the basic needs of their children. A good and effective responsibilities will have a positive impact on the life of a child, a parent who wish to have a responsible and well-mannered child will have to play a responsible roles and duties on their child in order to guide, protect and provide for the basic needs of their children.

Parents need to effectively carry out their duties towards their children in order to attain a responsible parenthood.

Responsible parenthood entails that a parent is able to cater for the financial, emotional, psychological, material, physical and spiritual needs of a child among other needs. Responsible parenthood is the will and ability of parents to respect and do the needs and aspirations of the family and children

(I) Roles of Responsible Parents

Parenting is not an easy task, so parents are saddled with the responsibility of taking proper care of their children, responsible parenthood require the ability of the parents to effectively carry out their duties and roles towards their children. Some roles of responsible parents include;

1. Provision of various needs for the family. It is the duty of the parents to provide for the financial, emotional, psychological needs of their children among other needs, the parents must prove they are responsible by caring emotionally for their children

2. Parents are responsible for the education of their children, both quality education at home and school, , they empower their children with the necessary skills that they require to face life's challenge ahead of them. It is the priority of the mother to train the children on basic household chores and help the children to be responsible.

3. They serve as good role model to their children, they also make sure they earn their respect and discipline their children when they are wrong but they should not be too hard on them

4. Parents should give listening ears to their children as they(children) have a lot of questions on their minds that they need answer to. They provide children with consistent schedules, routines, and relationships. They set healthy relationship structures with their children.

5. Parents are responsible to help their children understand various societal beliefs and help them fit well into the society. Responsible parenting also involves teaching children to respect others' opinions and to develop their own opinions too. Tolerance of others is a true civic virtue.

(II) Importance Of Responsible Parenthood

Responsible parenting is vitally important for society, the child and family.

1. Responsible parents will produce good children who will produce good children who will turn out to be good citizens that will contribute positively to national development. A crime free society will surely enjoy peace and progress.

2. Children who have been taught values by responsible parents will exhibit in the society and make the society a better place to live in. Responsible parents teach their children about honesty, integrity, justice, selflessness and such children will shun corruption and this will help the society to progress.

3. The nation will excel among other nations when children are properly brought up by responsible parents. Responsible parents see to the education of their children and such they will become future leaders to steer the wheel of the nation forward.

It is crystal clear from the roles and importance of responsible parenthood that responsible parenting and civic virtues are intimately linked. If we want to ensure that our society is a just and tolerant one, governed by moral principles, that we must all strive to be good and responsible parents.