Good Parenting

      In the article "What makes a good parent", there are ten competencies that predict good parenting outcomes. Expressing Love and Affection: You support and accept the child, are physically affectionate, and spend quality one-on-one time with him or her. Stress Management: You take steps to reduce stress for yourself and your child, practice relaxation techniques, and promote positive interpretations of events. Relationship Skills: You maintain a positive marital relationship and model effective relationship skills with other people. Autonomy and Independence: You treat your child with respect and encourage him or her to become self-sufficient and self-reliant. Education and Learning: You promote and model learning for your child. Life Skills: You provide for your child, have a steady income, and plan for the future. Behavior Management: You make extensive use of positive reinforcement and punish only when other methods of managing behavior have failed. Health: You model a healthy lifestyle and good habits for your child. Religion: You support spiritual or religious development and participate in spiritual or religious activities. Safety: You take precautions to protect your child and maintain awareness of the child's activities and friends.

      Take myself for example; good parenting is expressing love and affection, relationship skills, autonomy and independence and behavior management. My mother always shows how much she loves me, and let me know that I am so important for her. This makes me much more moved, and I will become a habit to express my love. My mother is also a successful woman, not only in her business, but in her life. She is kind to everyone, and tries her best to help her friends. She is my role model, and I can learn from my mother how to be a good person, a good friend, a good daughter. At the same time, she also gives me the enough independence. When I was young, she sent me to the boarding school. She wants me to become independent, and deal with my own things. With her good parenting, I become confident, kind, and optimistic.