Information Necessary to Parents during Child Upbringing

Information Necessary to Parents during Child Upbringing

Child upbringing is a very delicate responsibility. Many parents find the exercise wholly exhausting. This is so especially for those who have not experienced it again. Such kind of parents needs to be enlightened earlier on what to expect. This information cannot be read anywhere. Instead, it is passed by word of mouth. Clinicians and physicians are more advised to give such information. This information helps the parents in understanding how to handle the child from being a toddler onwards. This is because parenting can be genuinely tiresome and stressful to some extent. This paper focuses on the anticipatory information parents with toddlers and preschoolers need to know.

Toddlers are usually at a very delicate stage of life. This is because they are yet to know so much. Parts of their bodies are still developing, especially the speech. Therefore, a parent needs to understand how the child communicates on different occasions. (Hockenberry, & Wilson, 2018). They often cry a lot. Although doctors suggest that crying helps the child develop its lungs, sometimes it could be caused by sickness. The parent needs to differentiate. Moreover, the parent needs to understand the physiological and anatomical compilation of the toddler on a light note.

For the pre scholar, the parent needs to understand that the child is beginning to explore the world. This is a period during which the child’s brain is advancing highly. Therefore, they need to be very careful about what they speak and how they act before the child. This is the period during which the parent could use to instill principles and values to the kid. (Sege et al. 2018). Whatever the child learns at this stage, sticks in their brain. Therefore teaching them morals and virtues at this stage shall be so helpful in their adult life.

Overly, child upbringing is a very demanding task. The parent or the guardian needs to be wholly prepared for this. The kind of preparation the parent needs could only be passed by word of mouth through a trained professional. The parents need to understand the whole being of the child. More so, they need to get psychological and mental preparation to face parenthood

References

Hockenberry, M. J., & Wilson, D. (2018). Wong’s nursing care of infants and children-E-book. Elsevier Health Sciences.

Sege, R. D., Siegel, B. S., ABUSE, C. O. C., & COMMITTEE ON PSYCHOSOCIAL ASPECTS OF CHILD AND FAMILY HEALTH. (2018). Effective discipline to raise healthy children. Pediatrics, 142(6), e20183112.