Ways to help your child get ahead.
As parents we all wish we had a route map that would guarantee our child a successful future. Every parent wants their child to excel in life, be a well groomed and honest adult. There might not be a definite formula to actualise this wish, but we have enough scientific evidence to believe that parents and their parenting ways have a profound impact on how successful their children turn out.
Most parents are obsessed with academic excellence. In today’s competitive world, a good result is considered the only way a child can get ahead of others. It will surprise you that besides academic excellence there are certain other skills research identifies that a child’s successful future depends upon. Studies have also cautioned of overenthusiastic parenting and how unsuspectingly we might be doing our children a huge disfavour. Here is find out what you should and what you shouldn’t do as a parent.
Household chores
Gone are the days when children helped around the house, took out the garbage, watered the garden and learnt how to rustle up a quick breakfast. With children already strapped with academic and extracurricular activities, not to forget tuitions, the concept of doing household chores – more specifically helping out in the family – is considered a waste of time. Convenient for children who are absolved of work, parents further compound the situation by waiting on their children.
This story is from the July First 2017 edition of Woman's Era.
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