Parentage is a very important to bring the very best out of the child. Generosity, strength of character, courage, honesty and discipline are some of the values that we introduce our children to at an impressionable age. It plays an important role in creating and nurturing a reasonably normal and healthy human offspring seems so much more of a conundrum than it might for any other living species on earth. Here are some must have chars of good parentage.

RESPECT
Respect your child. Children are individuals in their own right, right from the moment the nurse brings the tiny bundle to the hospital bed, to the time they leave the nest. Respecting what your child is capable of and also encouraging him/her to push the envelope at their own pace. Respect their space both physically and mentally.
Accept them for what they are and treat them the way you would want them to treat you. The idea is to credit them with intelligence and repose a certain amount of trust in their ability to know right from wrong, according to the circumstances. Children were not meant to fulfill our dreams. They have their own so respect that and when you give respect; you surely will get it back.

BE THERE
Most of the working parents average day includes packing the kids off to school, dashing off to work, surviving enervating traffic jams and returning home brain-dead late evening to some or the other crisis, that needs defusing this very moment. Kids do understand, and are conditioned to the everyday chaos themselves. In the end, being there for your family, in every sense of the term, is beyond the sway of any metric system or labeling. That’s what we parents are for, to drop everything we’re doing and be by our child’s side when they truly need us. Even at the cost of a galloping career.

COMMUNICATE
Communicating with the child is very important. The important thing is talking with them, not down to them. You don’t need to have an agenda, just sharing thoughts is enough. Sharing a laugh, a casual summing up of the day or even a no-holds barred tell-all session - keeping the lines of communication open is much more significant than you can ever realize. It is good to talk about feelings even with your toddler or preschooler, in a breezy sort of way, minus the mush, since he/she is just starting to develop a keen sensitivity towards their immediate environment. Listening is as important, if not more so. Even, after a rough patch and a timeout in the corner, talk to your kid and ask them what they understood from the experience. Try and listen to their side of the story and then lay your cards on the table. Don’t just pretend o listen, understand what your child’s trying to say. Listening is what shrinks are paid by the hour the world over for. As parents we could do that for free and maybe save our kids from some such couch session in the distant future.