Responsible Parenting

Responsible parenting is important for today's parents, parents-to-be, surrogate parents and youths who may soon become parents themselves. Being a parent covers with it great responsibility. It is a role that cannot be played on the basis of chance.Raising a family builds up the character of the parents and fulfill their need to have children and develop their love for them and to share and plan life together. Parenting involves skills, responsibilities, and experiences in attending to and providing for the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of children. It also involves the inculcation of values and discipline. Many parents do not know how they score in the Parenting Scale. While specific techniques for child-raising will come, go, and change, there are certain core values and fundamental practices that won't change.Parenting brings many tensions, strains, and wear-and-tear but we must have the right heart-attitude toward our role as parents. We have to be wise and Godly parents, carrying the duty and responsibility before God, because parenting is an overwhelming, life-consuming, life-long priority. Nothing is more humbling than being a parent. It must encompass all aspects meeting the emotional, psychological, material and physical needs of the children. Good parenting does not come overnight. It is a long and fruitful process.