Parenting

 Parenting is something you never know how to do quite right. Is something we start learning when we start having kids, and there are even those that claim they still do not know after they have grandchildren. But is one of the most rewarding things to do. But what is the general definition of parenting? Parenting is the effort to protect and prepare children to survive and thrive in the world they will be living in. With that definition, it seems easier and more concise than it is, and definitely, it sounds less complex than it is. Two big things are important to discuss, one is the importance and some recommendations of how to raise children. 

The reasons why parenting is important may be pretty obvious, like creating a good citizen for the country, good workers, and good humans in general. And is true, the only thing is that sometimes we think or forget those things, we might think that someone else can give them or they won't have too many consequences in the real world if they are not taught that from us. It is proven that children that have physical contact, more eye contact, familiar and vocal sounds, tend to do better with social skills and in every aspect of their lives. Babys that grow in big facilities when lack those things show signs of not developing mentally, because they do not have a point of reference to learn from.  It is easy to conclude that some part of what makes us human comes from learning when we are kids. Now imagine what would happen if most kids would be raised like that? We would eventually create a society that lacks several human traits, and things like delinquency and lack of honesty among many others will start to develop and thrive more. And that will turn into a vicious cycle because if they have children, most people tend to repeat with their children what they had while they were growing up. 

Now some of the recommendations are focused on understanding some traits of children's behavior, and more importantly, understanding that is not about learning how to control the behavior of a kid but to learning how to satisfy their needs and help them be better. Some easy ways to do that is to give children since the early year in life options like choosing from themselves, offering them responsibilities instead of ordering something to do, teaching them how to contribute to the family, spending time in regular intervals with them, do several and different activities with them so they can experience a preference in sports and such.  Another thing that is important is to understand that there are some personality or character traits that are genetic and the way they react. when kids turn emotionally while crying, or angry and that kind of things, that is known as an emotional flood which in the other hand if they are logical and hide their emotions they are an emotional desert. Is important to know that because to help them be in the middle you need to understand that they will need to be approached in different ways. Emotional flood will need more time for listening and physical interaction, and emotional desert will need better questions and time.