PARENT’S RESPONSIBILITIES TOWARD CHILDREN

Introduction.     

Naturally, parents are responsible look after their children in good manners. All societies, countries, and states have formulated and set their own rules and regulations to protect the rights of children. Parents are responsible and follow the rules and regulations. While some Government and Non-Government Institutions at national and international levels are also playing their role to ensure the protection of children’s rights. Being human, we would have to be understood, that the provision of food, home shelter, safety, dress, education, health, money, property, provision of necessities or something else is not only our duty, but we are much more responsible than this. Because animals also provide food and home to their children, even they scarify their life upon their children’s security. We will have to be more conscious to make them use people in society. A lot of responsibilities of parents toward their children have been published on the electronic and print media. As per my thinking, parents are responsible to do the following:-

Love.  

Love your children. They are a great blessing of God. No materialized thing can compare with them. Your love for children is gratitude to Allah. When parents love their children, naturally, they feel happiness, and their intelligence and confidence level improves. What you can teach your children with love, you cannot teach in another way. The feeling of the children plays an important role in their physical and mental growth. Good feelings also improve the immune system of the human body. Finally, I would like to say here, that the love of parents is a great technique for learning, guiding and keeping them happy in all situations.       

• Character Improvement.       All parents endeavour within the capacity of their available resources to nurture their children. Character improvement is the main responsibility of the parents. All materialized resources can be purchased from the market but the character of a man cannot be purchased. Character means, morality, mentality, attitude, maturity and thinking, which is applied by us in our practical life. Character shows the standard of the reputation of a human. Therefore, as parents, we should have to be paid full attention to improving the character of our children.
• Discipline.   Parents are responsible for maintaining the discipline of their children. Discipline means motivation and maturity under which a man/woman does only a good deed according to the rules and regulations. A disciplined man/woman always remains away from illegal deeds. Discipline has great importance in the life of humans. Due to the lack of discipline, a system of any family society, country or state cannot run smoothly despite having good resources.

• Trust in God.           Motivate your children to keep trust in God. Trust in God means to make our children internally strong to face hardships. Now the question is how we should have to be guided about the trust in God? Its answer is very simple, tell them that some problems naturally occur, and that is not part of our mistake, we would have to be faced these problems patiently. During such situations, do not go into deep sorrow and stress conditions. For example, if the property or other financial loss occurs due to a natural disaster or the death of our friend or a blood relative occurs, we would have to be shown the patient.  Encourage yourself, work hard, and believe in God, He will give us good rewards which are best for us.
• Equality and Justice.        We are responsible to provide equal rights and opportunities to all children for the development and preparation for the best future. As parents, we should distribute our assets between them as per their rights. Education is an integral part of human life therefore it is our duty and responsibility to give the equal chance to children to get an education without a gender base. It has been observed some parents do not provide the chance to girls to get a higher education. It is an injustice and also shows an irresponsible attitude.  

• Provision of Healthy Activities.          Parents are responsible to provide healthy activities to the children, like indoor and outdoor games.  Sport is compulsory to maintain the health of all ages of persons, especially children. Sportsmanship promotes confidence, harmony and good habits. To ensure it, parents can organize games competition between children at the village and town levels on a self-help basis.

• Truth.   We should speak the truth with the children because they follow us. Tell them about the importance of truth and the disadvantages of lying. Motivate them to be remaining straightforward throughout life. Motivate the children to fulfil the promise.

• Eating and Drinking.   Parents are responsible tell the manners of eating and drinking to their children. Tell them, to wash their hand before eating and start to eat with the name Allah/God. Tell them to drink the water before eating.  Chew the food completely and do not eat more than the capacity of your stomach. If you will eat more than required, you may become sick.  After eating, thank God and again wash your hand.

• Conversation Manners.  Good communication skill has an excellent impression. As parents, it is our responsibility to tell the conversation manners of the children. How they should talk with elders and younger? They should not do the useless conversation. Less conversation habit covers your weaknesses and a wise man does not do useless talk.

• Respect.       This is a great responsibility of husband and wife; they should do they respect each other. Father would have to be said to the children to respect their mother and the mother should also do so. In this way, a respectful environment is created, and the children take a good impression.

• Pray.  After performing the duties and responsibilities sincerely toward children, parents should pray for their children, God gives them the right path, health, and all happiness and saves the devil's snare.

Consequences.      

I have no doubt, some child care institutions are performing their duties well to look after the children but parents are really responsible. In the light of above mention responsibilities of parents and, my personal experiences, observations and feelings, I have concluded the following consequences:-

As parents, we would have to be accepted our responsibilities toward our children because we are answerable to society and God about our children.   

We should admit the reality, children are innocent. They are our future, and if we want to see our bright future, we would have to be paid full attention to looking after them.

Our children are our corps, what we sow so we will reap.

We would have to be paid special attention to keeping them clean conduct so that they could produce good results for society.