Active Parenting is what most parents would aspire to do. However, with today’s demand on the parents to provide for the family, many families today are two-income families. After bringing the children into the world, we work hard to provide them the material needs. There seems to be lesser time spent to meet their emotional and psychological needs. The development of our children seems to fall into the hands of their teachers, coaches, even friends…and some have even entrusted it to their domestic helpers. As parents, though wanting to be active has been reduced to only actively providing for their material needs
Who has a time-table for our children at home? In school, there is a time-table to let the students know which subject will be taught that day and time. Managing time in school is not a problem. It is when your child comes home, throw his uniform for washing, and then time is slowly wasted away. Just before he jumps into bed, he suddenly remembered that he has an assignment to be submitted tomorrow morning. The assignment was given to him a week ago. Frantically, he shouts to you for help, digging into his pile of books to look for that assignment. Very soon the mum and dad are involved sitting with him late into the night to help him finish that assignment.