32 Mistakes Parents Make

Child rearing is another name for parenting. Wikipedia defines parenting thus “It is the process of promoting and supporting the physical, emotional, social and intellectual development of a child from infancy to adulthood.” It is also a process of developing or bringing up a child spiritually to maturity so that the child may not depart or deviate from the patterned beliefs or cherished norms of the father or mother.

However, parenting does not require a straight-jacketed approach. Different parents, different styles or strategies in child upbringing, though the standards of reaching the set goals or expectations of the parents may be the same.

Though poor parenting may be attributable to lack of sleep, harried schedules, multi-tasking stress, ignorance, pampering, or inherent human fallibility, father and mother make mistakes. In an era, culture mixing has played a dangerous game to the extent of phasing out other rich cultures, then the parents have an arduous task to perform in order to beat their children into the path of moral rectitude.

Here are common 32 mistakes parents make. The list is not exhausted, yet you can suggest more for update.

1. We forget we’re raising adults, not kids
2. We do it for Instagram, not for the kid
3. We neglect our partners
4. We don’t pay enough attention to their interactions
5. We do it for them
6. We criticize
7. We use bribes
8. We try to live through our kids
9. We turn a blind eye
10. We don’t take the time to explain
11. We’re inconsistent
12. We tell kids how to feel
13. We ask the wrong questions
14. We forget to play along
15. We try to measure up against other parents
16. We solve interpersonal problems for them
17. We try to be best friends with our kids
18. We may not teach them the value of money
19. We shout
20. We’re hypocritical
21. We hold them too close
22. We don’t let them feel the consequences
23. We let them spend too much time with technology
24. We expect too much
25. We try to talk above them
26. We praise them too much, or for the wrong reasons
27. We forget important items
28. We give too much choice
29. We over-schedule kids’ lives
30. We let our kids fall
31. We allow the kids to concentrate much time in watching movies, Facebook, WhatsApp, etc.
32. We allow our house-helps to do the parenting due to the nature of our work. (Business Insider)