Parenting Success Today In A Complex World by: Pierre Du Plessis

Parenting success in rearing children or being a parent is the most neglected area of training in the whole wide world. If you have a child or going to have one, it will be your task to rear, teach and lead that child for about twenty years.

So, rearing a child is most definitely a career for all parents, apart from the professional career path you have to follow for financial survival. If you have more than one child, you may need to be in the career of being a parent, for a period of 30 or 40 years, depending on how far apart your children are borne. The question is: how can you achieve parenting success as a parent? Rearing children is the most common and universal career on mother earth for most human beings. It is the occupation with the highest membership and yet there is virtually no training available on parenting success, how to be a good parent or how to improve parenting abilities. Have you ever heard of a College or University running such a course? Have you ever heard of any other Institution running such a course? Yes they are there, but very few.

Being a parent simply means you have two careers, one of being a parent and one of being the provider of life amenities. With little help and information on parenting success or how to be a better parent, you are being left out in the cold by the whole world to figure it out for yourself. Can this be true? It is fairly common knowledge what must be done to provide in the physical and physiological needs of children like food, medicine, clothing, shelter, toys and schooling. However, when it comes to the intellectual and mental development of a child, things become blurry and not so clear-cut any longer and this is where available training leaves a huge deficiency gap in the society of mankind.

Every parent is in high need of training in the intellectual development or intellectual upbringing of their children, in a world where there is little of such training available. We can aptly name it training in Parenting Success or Parenthood Leadership. Possible subjects to touch on in such career training in Parenting Success or Parenthood Leadership could be: Parenting success in helping your child with disciplined love in basic hygiene matters.

Parenting success in helping your child with to move, walk and co-ordinate muscles and body limbs.

Parenting success in helping your child improve reading, writing and counting abilities.

Parenting success in helping your child to understand religion of the world.

Parenting success in helping your child understand the civilised values of this world.

Parenting success in helping your child develop cognitive thinking abilities.

Parenting success in helping your child develop ethical values.

Parenting success in helping your child understanding human health and fitness matters.

Parenting success in helping your child explore possible lurking, latent talents.

Parenting success in helping your child develop special talents and interests.

Parenting success in helping your child to build up confidence and self-worth in thinking processes.

Parenting success in helping your child understand the political systems we live with.

Parenting success in helping your child understand the financial and competitive economic environments we live in. Parenting success in helping your child develop creativity and dedication simultaneously.

Parenting success in helping your child to understand what it takes to be successful in life.

Research on the internet about available parenting advice and information for parents on parenting success or how to successfully rear and treat babies, children, pre-teens and adolescent teenagers, has revealed a wide and extensive database of articles and products on the subjects of successful child development, successful child rearing and successful parental influence.

One can find informative literature on most topics dealing with the problems associated with the normal developmental stages of childhood, including treatment of child health disorders. Most parents are fit and equipped to deal with child health related matters such as child nutrition and child illnesses, due to the abundant availability of facilities and information on these subjects from hereditary word of mouth contacts, clinics, health centres, the pharmaceutical industry and the medical profession. Here parenting success is easy. Child cognitive, intellectual and psychological development can be a culmination of genes, circumstances, environment and parental influence, of which parental influence is the most dominant and critical factor to impact on child development and behaviour. With the right knowledge, parental influence can also be the easiest to apply for the beneficial development of cognitive, intellectual and psychological processes in children. Parenting success here can become easy with the right knowledge.

Most parents are not equipped to use parental influence in the best positive way. The reason behind this is simply because they marry young, have children and are then caught up in the everyday chores of child rearing and financial survival, deterring them from finding time to equip themselves with the necessary knowledge, to impact positively on child cognitive, intellectual and psychological development. Therefore child development is mostly a result of accidental development by prevailing haphazard circumstances and child inner-self choices. Child development is not a sole responsibility of schools and teachers. Children are far more influenced by parents than by teachers. Parental influence is the single most important factor in the development of children, especially so in the early stages of development.

Most parents, after years of parenting, when their children have already reached adulthood, when reflecting back in time, say they wish they could do it over again. If they could do it over again, they think they could do a better job of parenting, with all the knowledge, experience and wisdom they have accumulated over the years. If they could only possess the knowledge earlier, when their children needed it the most, their children could also have ended up being stronger and better persons.

Information for parents are now more readily available, thanks to the internet. The information covering all the stages of child development, from birth to adulthood, are however, widely spread out in different pockets on different web sites all over the internet and cannot be accessed without extensive research and cost. Leaders Circle Family Web Club has therefore bridged the gap by bundling products together, to cover all the stages of successful child development, successful child rearing and successful parental influence, in one place.

We have also created a Free Parenting Business Franchise for Schools and energetic Entrepreneurs in the form of a combined online/offline business opportunity. My wife and I have gone through the parenting cycle ourselves. We know how difficult it can be and we know what we are talking about. We have four of them, all now happily married with their own offspring. We had to pay for four car write-offs, caused by our two sons and two big wedding functions for our daughters, all in a short period of eighteen months. But boy oh boy, if we could just have had this helpful information and bag of knowledge in our younger days!! The best of success with rearing your child.

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Protecting Your Child From Being Harmed by Cyberspace Games- A Case for Internet Filters

With the rapid proliferation of homes installing broad band internet connections, more school children are getting into cyberspace to play games like Maple story etc. You may think that internet games are harmless. You could be wrong :

1. A child who spends many hours in playing cyber games will be deprived of the chance to interact with other children to develop his/her social skills.
2. Cyber games tend to be action oriented with near instantaneous gratification. Prolonged exposure to such situations will lead to diminished interest in reading, playing musical instruments, playing chess and other intellectually stimulating activities. This will invariably affect the child's mental development and possbly progress in school.
3. A child may stumble on some text or images of websites that may not be suitable for children. Exposure to sexual images and messages at a young age will certainly do more harm than good.
4. A child may also stumbleupon a variety of websites that offer the opportunity to make friends. Through chat sites and messengers , it is possible for some unscupulous paedophiles who masquerade as youngsters to befriend your child to extract private information. They could use such information to threaten or abuse the child.

So there is a need for some kind of control and protection by installing some filtering software. There are some people who think that internet filters are for overbearing parents, but that is really not true. Internet filters are used by a wide cross section of the society that has people with differing views, attitudes and moral standpoints. Internet filters are cumstomizable. The degree of restriction that they bring to your computer and your child's use of the Internet can be completely tailored to suit your needs.

An illustration of the degree of customisation is that you can set your filter so that your child can only use the net for a small period of time a day, and only has access to a few websites that you have specially selected. On the other hand, you can give your child much longer access to the Internet each day, and let them have access to all sites except for a couple of specific websites that you have deemed inappropriate.

Internet filters are, thus, indeed useful in significantly reducing the risks of your children being exposed to undesired elements in the cyberspace. It pays to adhere to the old adage:"Prevention is better cure."

Alfred Chow

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Teaching the 'Unteachable' Child!!!

Children are endowed differently and each has a unqiue way of learning. In a normal school setting, some may learn faster than others. There is also an unfortunate group that is often labelled as unteachable by educators. Labelling a child as unteachable is detrimental to the development of a child. It affects the child's self-esteem, self-confidence and, hence, ability to learn.

I have a son who had problems in coping with schoolwork. His teachers said that he was not attentive in class and was slow in grasping what was taught in class. So, I sent him for extra coaching in private tuition centres. However, his grades improved only marginally. At the end of each school term, I would get feedback that my son was uninterested in his studies and that his progress in school was not satisfactory. He failed in some subjects in his school examinations.

Naturally, I was concerned but did know what to do to help him. To me, did not appear to be intellectually inferior. He was like any normal child who would play computer games, read comics, go cycling etc. In fact, he is quite good in drawing. In searching for a solution, I talked to parents, teachers and even professional counsellors. There was no breakthrough though.

To stimulate his interets in his studies, I decided to draw pictures (since he was what he liked to do) in explaining concepts for his Mathematics and Science subjects. I discovered that by using drawings and pictures, he could concentrate longer and I was delighted. I would encourage him to organise new concepts and ideas that were taught in school in the form of pictures, if that was what he would like to do. There was progress although a slow one. I praised and encouraged him whenever he did well in his school work. After many months, his school grades began to improve. He is no longer at the bottom of his class and has been securing above average results in his school examinations.

I think, it is important to identify what a child already is interested in and activates that while teaching something else. Do not allow 'labels' to take away the joy of learning from children with special needs.

Alfred

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