What Parents Should Expect from Their Children

A child is a person who lives under the roof of his or her parent's house. The parents give some training to this child, and later in life this child will grow to become a parent (if he does not want to be a reverend) and will probably give similar training to his or her child. Children are from God and God alone, these children need to be taken care of and the parents have the responsibility of doing that. Parents have some important roles to play in the child's upbringing as the child is expected not to depart from them and this may determine how he/she will end up in life.

Some of the expectations of the child from his parents are;

the parents are to teach the child how to behave while he is still small from as early as 1-5 years so that the child will not depart from it. The child may do some things which he sees other people doing, whether good or bad. At this stage, the child does not know what is good or bad, so the parents are to correct the child at any instant he goes wrong. The parents should make sure they watch what the child is doing and the movement of the child should be restricted and they should also ensure that the child does not engage with people with bad habits such as those who smoke, drink etc, because the child tends to do whatever he/she sees at this early stage.

The child needs to be feed in order for him to grow and maintain good health. The feeding of this child is the responsibility of the parents. The parents are to introduce varieties of food to the child, so that some food items would not be strange to him in future. As the child eats different kinds of food, good nutrition will be maintained, and these food items would not be strange to him in future. Some foodstuffs are very nutritious but some adults do not eat them because they were not brought up with it while they were small. Nutrition is very important in children; their feeding should not be toiled with. Food affects both the physical and mental being of the child. A child can have so many diseases and infections if he lacks good food. The parents should ensure that the child eats balanced diet and at least three square meals a day, the quantity of food consumed by the child should also be measured so as to avoid malnutrition. Parents should note that as the child increases in age, more food will be consumed by him, and when he gets to the age of fourteen (which is the beginning of puberty in boys), large quantity of food will be consumed by the child. In essence, the parents should have a food budget so as to meet the adequate requirement of the family.

Education is the key to success in life, so parents should make sure that they give their children the best they can afford so that the child will come out successful in life. Parents should pay critical attention to any complaint of their children concerning their schooling, and should try their best to solve whatever problems the children are having in school. Going to school is very important and after some time the child can make up his mind if he wants to continue the formal education or start up with informal education. Without education, it is almost or even impossible for somebody to be successful in life. Some parents make the mistake of neglecting their children, giving them some petty things to hawk on the road while their mates are going to school, that is very bad, the parents are digging early graves for the children in that way. The parents should know that these children are the leaders of tomorrow, if they are educated; they can become presidents, lawyers, professors, scientists, mathematicians, big business men and other great professions in the world instead of ending up as house-helps or slaves. It is the responsibility of the parents to pay the child's school fees. If the parents were childless, how will they feel? The success of every marriage is having children; these children are to be given sound education if they really need these children. In some families, if the child just tells the parents any bill he is to pay at school, they slap him, shout on him or do something bad, it is not the child's fault, he's only delivering the message he was given in school. Such character displayed by the parents can make the child have a mental problem. Parents should try their best to educate their children for they are the future leaders.

Children should be encouraged by their parents when they perform very well academically it other aspects educationally as this shows them that they are on the right track and will love to continue in that way.

The child is supposed to live with the parents; he has no other place to go. The parents should make the child feel at home, he's not a stranger so he is entitled to everything at home. When bringing up a child, he is to be with his immediate family, in the same home so that he has a good relationship with his parents, brothers and sisters and they know one another very well.

The child may go wrong in some aspects; the parents should correct the child in times like that. Any parent should make sure that he/she does not make the mistake of threatening to kick the child out of the house no matter what the child does; this is very bad as it may affect the child's emotions. If a child is trained in the right way from when he is small, there is a considerable level of the offence he can commit so threatening or trying to kick the child out of the house is not something that should take place in a good family.