Parenting style and its impact on the lifestyle of children

Outline

Preface

Good parenting techniques

End note

Article

• Preface

Hey guys! Here is my new article with a new insight. In life, on one side you are responsible for shaping your lifestyle, but on the other side, you are also responsible for shaping the lifestyle of your children who are dependent on you. Your parenting style can either teach them how to live a healthy and quality life or it can teach them to live life without taking care of their lifestyle.

A few years back, you came to this world as a newborn child. You were given a family to rely upon and look for. You had parents, who took care of you and provided you with clothes, food, education, care, love, respect, and many other things until you became able to look after yourself. They taught you how to live and prosper in life and role-modeled themselves for your learning. After a few years, you became the parent of a child and now the role that your parents played for you has to be played by you.

But have you ever wondered if the relationship of parents and child had a great impact on the lifestyle of later? Yes, it is true. Parents teach their children that how they can shape their lives and to great extent children spend their whole lives under the influence of that teaching. 

Good parenting plays a pivotal role in the development of a child’s brain, it shapes their personality and tells them how to avoid undesirable behaviors and disorders in life. What you show to your child as a parent, signals them how you want to see them. For example, the way you handle your frustrations and breakdowns tells your child how he has to deal with his frustrations and breakdowns. Another example is if you are using too much screen time and spend a lot of time scrolling social media websites on your phone, your child automatically gets a message that it’s ok to use screen time for an extended time.

So, the way you speak to others and to your child and the way you behave with others and to your child, taught your child how he should speak and behave with others, and hence his life is shaping under your influence.

• Good parenting techniques

The early years of the life of a child majorly determine how would be later years of his life. Let’s look at how good parenting techniques affect the lifestyle of your children.

1. If parents are supportive and attentive, understand their child’s mental approach fully, and let him express himself freely and openly, it will make him grow socially, emotionally, physically, morally, and intellectually. As a parent, you have a make-or-break effect on the lives of your children. So, always try to deal with your child in the best possible way, so that he may find a beam of light and hope in you and use this light to search his way. But if the parents of a child are self-centered and do not give much attention and support to their children, they are not telling their children how they can incorporate in life and live a successful life.
2. If you are used to taking care of your health and well-being and are avoiding everything that could harm you physically, then you are trying to take care of your child in the best possible way and make sure he remains fit. Such parenting style will make a child learn at a tender age that taking care of your health should be a priority in life and it can never be compromised. So, you have laid the foundation for your child’s healthy lifestyle.
3. Life is not a piece of cake that is too soft and sweet and always gives you delight. But it has many uncertain and hidden risks and dangers like failed marriage, job lay-off, terrorism, break-up from a loved one, and many more. Your parenting style teaches your children that they have to remain strong and resilient in any kind of situation and should never give up. You have to teach your child that they cannot fall apart in hard times and become prey to anxiety, stress, and depression.
4. Life is not always the same and it can become quite tough and make you suffer badly. Moreover, in life, you can meet with people who are just opposite to you and can become a test for your patience level. So, being a good parent, you have to teach your child the importance of flexibility in life. If they had flexibility in their personality, they could easily pass through a rough patch in life and deal with unbearable people. This quality of flexibility is crucial to living a healthy lifestyle. But parents who don’t have flexibility in themselves can never teach it to their children and hence make them vulnerable for their upcoming life.

5. When being a parent you are used to have a control over your emotions like rage, anger, hatred, depression, anxiety, and fear, you are also teaching your child the way they can control their emotions and live a peaceful life. But if you don’t have any kind of control over your emotions while dealing with your life partner or your children, you are giving them the wrong hint about how to express their emotions and this thing would take a toll form their lifestyle and well-being.

6. Parents who are giving well-brought to their kids are laying the foundation for their happiness and confidence which would help them their whole lives. But if being a parent you are used to abusing, scolding, beating, and mocking your child, you are ruining his self-esteem and confidence, and he or she may never get it back in life. Hence, they are not going to live a quality life with a healthy lifestyle.

7. People who have negative habits like smoking, irregular drinking, staying awake late, getting up late, eating unhygienic and unhealthy food, keeping themselves away from social life, and not letting others come closer to themselves, incorporate these bad habits in their children too and worsen their lives. If you want your children to live an admirable life, you have to get rid of your bad habits and portray good habits in front of them to make them learn and practice.

• End note

Being a parent, you are responsible for the well-being of your children. You can either make their lives by portraying healthy lifestyle ingredients in your own life or you can break their lives by practicing wrong habits and actions. Be sure that wrong actions and habits would get embedded in the psyche of your child and there is a great chance that he may never get rid of them.

So, my dear, along with shaping your own life, you have to shape the lives of your children and lay the foundation for their healthy lifestyle. Being a parent, you have to kick off bad parenting style and welcome good parenting and fulfill your duties toward your child in the best possible way.