Parenting Tips and Advice

What is the definition of a “good parent”? Is it someone who is nurturing? Someone who is a disciplinarian? Someone who is a buddy? Perhaps a “good parent” possesses each of these qualities and many more. The challenge of parenting is that each parent must come to know their child – -and themselves — and make critical decisions regarding the type of parent they will be. I believe that the definition of a “good parent” is a parent who prepares their child to live a life where the parent is no longer needed. In short, a parent who allows themselves to become “not needed” is perhaps the parent who is doing the task of parenting well.