WHAT IS PARENTING PART 4? PARENTING IS A COMMITMENT, NOT A COMPLEANCY.

A –admiration is a very important virtue in parenting, as it involves seeing what God is seeing in your child and saying what God is saying over him or her. However, it takes faith and sensitivity to call those things that are not as though they are.

As a parent, you have a supervisory role to play over the destiny of your child, and as a supervisor, you will have to be watchful. Jochebed did not just drop her son by the riverside; she put a structure in place for his supervision. Likewise, you have to be deliberate in putting a structure in place that monitors and supervises your child’s activities even when you are not proximal to them. 

Truly, parenting is becoming more challenging in recent times than it was in the past, following the position of the world economy, which has played a major role in influencing gender roles and throwing many parents out of balance.

All through January, the subject of understanding the concept of parenting was in view, and we defined the acronyms of P.A.R.E.N.T. as Patient-Admirer-Realistic-Enduring-Nearest-Teacher. Having taught on what the Lord expected of us as parents through the first four letters of the acronyms, going forward we will be looking at N-nearest, which suggests that parents are the first contacts that a child has immediately after birth, and this continues until the child begins preparatory school.