The answer is a resounding YES! Whether parents are aware of it  or not, they do play a very important role in their children’s lives. Generally speaking parents do have much to do in how their children relate to the world. The parent-child relationship is a key to your children’s future and  how children respond to authority.

At home parents adopt the type of rearing style, with which they are most familiar. It is important to be able to distinguish the right kind of rearing style to adopt. Some rearing styles are detrimental to parent-child relationship. Some rearing styles are beneficial, allowing the  parent-child , relationship to grow and the child to have a strong healthy outlook in life.

Two key concepts to balance, control and support: the best one includes high control and high support, the next one not so good high support and poor control, an authoritarian style has as its elements low support and high control,lastly some parents exert, out of negligence low support and low control.

Parents must have a good handle on how to deal with life situations, they are setting an example for their children.  When their children become parents will use the tools they have learned from their parents to parent accordingly.

It is best if the children have learned from their home experience to set limits, to have  consistency, firmness, patience, to be loving ,  reasonable, considerate, warm,  and to have self control. Great parenting tools!

A recipe for a disastrous relationship, breeds hostility:  Inconsistent demands, extreme force and punishment, uncaring, harsh and dictatorial unsympathetic and cold.

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