Qualitative parenting: Parenting is no more defined as only rearing up children!
Art is a field that is not only applicable in certain streams specific to dance, theatre, music or painting. Everyone has to be an artist in whatever role he or she is as per this life. Parenting is a skill and time has made it even more complex. Many factors can be attributed to the same namely, changed educational set ups, advancements in technology, easy access and lot of exposure to children in almost every area, the changed way of dealing of parents with children and of course globalization where the boundaries have shrunk to very small screens in front of your eyes from where you can access anything anytime.
The current scenario has redefined everyone’s role. All those ways that were applicable till now have gone outdated and everyone had to resort to some new ways, new methodologies to implement all those things that we used to do daily and with excess of comfort. Among all these drastic changes or I would call ‘The new Normal’, parents had to undergo a lot of turmoil as they had to redefine their roles from being mom and dad to being teachers. After a certain age, children not going to school and being handled at home for their education had never been a normal scenario but COVID 19 has changed everything.
Every professional, to whichever field he or she belong to, has undergone a rigorous training to become accustomed to the new normal but unfortunately, parents have not undergone any such training and most of them are baffled till date about how to manage kids at home with all other things simultaneously. The biggest rescue that parent’s resort to is make children busy with devices and do their own work but dear all this is not at all the solution!
DC Ferozepur in Class Room- ( File Photo )
It all about role reversal, the first thing we should do as parents is, ‘Stop parenting’ and ‘Start mentoring’. Children of this generation are very smart, intelligent, exposed and are very resourceful. Utilize their caliber and make them busy in all different tasks that you can. Kids of this generation do not require parenting; they require assistance and somebody who can understand them for what they want to do. There are hundreds of things at home that we do but usually we do not involve kids in that because we all are busy parenting! Guide them and assist them in setting their priorities and managing things in a way they want to do by having faith in them and making them understand that their role in the family is much more than just sitting and watching some you tube videos and playing online games.
Our children need our assistance to stay on the right path, do not show them or tell them, just mentor them and let them decide for themselves, help them make their study routine, help them plan their leisure time, find out time to listen to all their stories and let them develop faith in you, practice and make them understand the value of keeping oneself fit, stop staying busy all the time, make your children a priority as this time needs everyone to be with everyone. Let your kids find happiness with you as they cannot go out and enjoy with their friends as before. Help them understand the value of time but practicing it yourself as you will never get this much time with your kids again as time is never constant and this time will pass. So, make the most of it and let’s redefine our roles as parents. Try being a teacher instead of being a parent.
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Navpreet Brar, Blogger
Navpreet.kuku@gmail.com
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