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The importance of the parent-child
relationship
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Parent-child relationship lays the foundation for the
child’s personality,choices and overall behavior.That
special relationship affect on the way that the child will
turn out.It is a unique bond that every child and parent
can enjoy.
Positive parent-child relationship are important for all areas of child’s
development.There is a quote ‘The sign of great parenting is not the
child’s behavior.”The sign of truely great parenting is the parent’s
behavior.Parents can strengthen their relationship with their children by
spending quality time and showing love to their kids.Their are many
ways parents can follow to maintain healthy relationship with their kids
such as respecting child’s choice,eating meals as a family,making them a
priority in their life.Childrens have also responsibilities to their
parents.They should obey their parents.Parent-child good relationship is
also needed for a happy family.
Why parent child relationship is important?
For establishing secure bonds and friendships with
peers
Promoting a child’s cognitive,emotional and social
development
Ensuring performance of kids better socially and
academically
For helping child to learn essential skills and values
For regulating emotions when faced with stress and
difficult situations
For establishing secure bonds and friendships
Children who have a healthy relationship with their parents
are more likely to develop positive relationships and secure
bonds with peers,family members,teachers,classmates and
other people around them.
A Secure attachment
with parents helps kids
to exhibit positive
Promoting a child’s
cognitive,emotional and
social behaviors.It is
social development also helpful for
cognitive,emotional
and social
development.
Parents are the best
Ensuring teachers.They can teach kids
performance of kids all the best qualities necessery
better socially and to performance better socially
academically and academically.Those set
them on the path for the future
success.
For helping child to learn essential
skills and values
Young children who have a secure and healthy
attachment to their parents are more skilled than other
children.parents are the best guide.By following their
guidance kids can learn essentials skills and values.They
can learn etiquette and manners.They can be able to
differenciate between good and bad.
For regulating emotions when faced with
stress and difficult situations
Life is not a bed of roses.Difficulty is the
part of our life.We can not face stress
alone.we need our parents standing by our
side.They are our strength;they are our
inspiration.Strong bonds with parents helps
kids to cope with all difficult situations.
There is a quote that ‘‘ Anyone can have a child and call themselves a parent.
But a real parent is someone who puts their child above their own selfish needs
and wants.’’Bad parent-child relationship is very harmful for the
family.The effects of bad parenting on the children include antisocial
behavior, poor resilience, depression, and aggression.A study by The Center for
Parenting Education established that children are influenced by the attitude of
their parentseither positively or negatively.poor parenting decision can effect
harmfully through childhood.Bad parent-child relationship also makes kids totally
spoiled.So healthy relationship between parent-child is very much important.
• Good parenting teaches a child that they can love and be
loved,one the other hand bad parenting confuses love with
need.
• A research about parent-child relationship by Youth Statistics in
New York found that two out of three (66%) of adolescents age
12-17 live with both parents, 24% with their mother only, 5%
with their father only, and 5% with neither parent .The quality
of parents' relationships makes a difference to children in many
ways. A Child Trends analysis found that whether parents are
married or cohabitating, parental relationship quality -- how
happy parents are in the relationship -- is associated with
children's behavior problems, social competence, school
engagement, and depression.
• Family conflict, lack of discipline in family life,disagreement
between parent child can hamper good-parent child
relationship.
Finally Healthy parent-child relationship is important for happy and peaceful
family and moreover for happy life.
