The Effect Parents Have on Their Children.

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Why is it important that parents make wise decisions? It is important because these choices not only affect themselves but also affect their children. Parents and caregivers are vital to the development and growth of children. Parents play a crucial role in every stage of childhood and can play a positive role in helping them get the best out of life. The most simplest decisions in a parents life could damage the life of a child. That's why the way parents raise their children play an important role and have different effects on their child's life.

All parents have different views on how they should raise their children and different parenting methods. While having children may be "doing what comes naturally", being a good parent is much more complicated. All a child is looking for is a lot of love and support but there is so much more that goes along with the task you take as a parent.

Parenting should involve spending time with your kids, chatting with them daily, teaching them right from wrong, teaching them manners, teaching them to share, loving them, playing with them, teaching them what respect is and installing moral values in them. (Lane)

Not only does a parent take on the title of a role model, they are also take on the role of being the most important teacher their child will come across in their life. Teaching them love, honor and respect is only the start. Many parents don't seem to understand that they are molding our next generation and that our children take what they learn at home and what they learned growing up and apply it to their lives and how they will raise their children. It's said that children imitate what they hear and see their parents or other adults around them do and say. A good example is...

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