Spending quality time with children and getting them involved in the daily life activities not only breaks the ice but makes them responsible, feel wanted and prepares them for life.
It involves intensive, personalised and longlasting care. One of the crucial responsibilities of a parent is to create an atmosphere at home that will make the child feel wanted and accepted. Parenting implies integrating the head, heart and the hand of the child. One should remember that parenting is more a cultivated art than a biological inheritance.
In this day and age when time is a valued commodity, pressures abound both at home and at work. How does one manage to provide the best for one’s child, and yet cultivate a balance on other fronts as well? Is being around all the time the only way to bond? Parental involvement is all about attitude and initiative. It is about communication and interaction. In other words, it is about how parents relate to their children in the context of the time available to them.
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