The most important thing parents can do with their children is play with them.
Forget watching educational YouTube videos or sending kids to classes. The single most important thing parents can do with their children is to play with them. - Image by tirachardz on Freepik.But with urbanisation and migration of young adults from rural areas to cities in search of education and better job prospects, that proverbial village has become fragmented, and most young parents now raise children on their own.
“That’s an important training ground for children to develop their social communication, like learning to communicate and even picking up new languages. It also helps children to develop socially and emotionally through empathy, waiting, turn-taking, sharing and perspective-taking and improve their problem-solving skills through negotiation and independence,”
The move, she said, was a win-win situation. As a home tuition teacher, she could watch over her parents without having to hire a helper. Repair works and big purchases are also shared so there’s less financial burden on working adults. Paediatric dentist Thaarani Vijayakumar, 39, says not having her parents close by means she and her husband rely heavily on their childminders and kindergarten to help with childcare.
“I will let my child be a child. I don’t believe in drilling her academically. I allow her a balanced time for physical socialising with her friends, lots of outdoor playtime and online games ,” Natasha considers her parenting style dynamic. “It is a hybrid between gentle and resiliency parenting. To stick to one form of parenting over the other would result in a very skewed approach and it will not benefit the child in the long run,”
Dr Rajini says evidence shows that authoritative parenting results in children having better outcomes in the long term. Syawiroh agrees, saying parents would like to provide for their children as best as they could.“The Internet and social media’s marketing can overpower judgement, forcing parents to fork out money for something that’s currently ‘in’, just because their children ask for them,”
“Then, there are issues in childcare, basic parenting skills, chasing goals for kids and a culture of fear that parents need to overcome,” she says. . “The Malaysian Paediatric Association has a Positive Parenting arm, in collaboration with other health and childcare bodies that produce evidence-based recommendations by professionals in the field.
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