Duties of Parents

Parents are the means through which the children take this form. This fact, however, doesn’t entitle the parents to own their children. The Almighty has chosen them only to bring for the next progeny and the most they should enact the role of caretaker of God’s creation which has come through them. Feeling of possessiveness will only bring troubles to them in future and will also impede their natural growth.

Before continuing my opinion regarding the duties of parents I feel it a necessity to establish my authenticity over this issue. As it is not necessary for us to play cricket in order to comment over the performance of Indian Cricket team similarly one can master the intricacies involved in parenting a child by observing the different behavioural roles of various parents over the years and the reaction, result, consequence it brings forth in the students we teach and take care of.










However this is not the only point in support to establishing my authenticity over this issue. Understanding the parenting of primary and middle class children for me is no doubt based on only the observation of other parents of my students for I haven’t brought up a child at the level. However, as my daughter Navleen Kaur is 5 plus I’ve the experience of parenting a child of Pre-Primary classes and on the other hand as my cousin Jasvinder Singh did his +2 by staying with me under my guardianship I think I have some right over commenting upon the role of a parent of senior classes. Jasvinder had cleared his +2 with 74% aggregate and has established himself very well on his own in the field of computers. He supplies computer as well as provides faculty to various schools and has taken up AMCs of few good companies.

On the other hand my daughter so far by the grace of God is doing well on her own without much of help or intervention from our side. Hence as both Jasvinder and Navleen are doing well as per the normal set standards (for sure I’m not claiming them to be extraordinary) I feel that both my wife and myself have been upto some extent successful in our endeavour of being parents.

Let’s start …………… responsibilities of parents of - age to 5 years . I’ve written – (minus) for I feel that our responsibilities as parents should start even before the child is born. There are enough number of easy ways & means to make the arrival of the child planned one and not something which just comes on its own. Both husband & wife should right from the beginning consider it to be a joint venture and should