A child is the greatest blessing of God to the parents. But along with this angel, comes the responsibility of nurturing and growing your child. This is not an easy job and requires a great amount of patience and perseverance. Children have highly impressionable minds, and they watch and copy just about everything. While raising happy, positive children, a mother spends the maximum time with her baby, therefore she becomes the first teacher of her child and the child believes her and follows her completely.
To the mind of a mother, who loves her children, no subject can have so deep an interest as that which has respect to the well-being of her offspring. Young mothers, especially, feel the need, the great need of the hints and help to be derived from others’ experience. Parenting is a team effort. There is an old African proverb that says it takes a village to raise a child.
While a child is influenced and shaped by the entire society, there are no individuals who play a more pivotal role in this than the parents and the school. It involves promoting a child’s well-being, by supporting his/her physical, intellectual, emotional and social development.