A. WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT (20) MARKS
Assume that you are a founder of Brainy Montessori who will deliver a speech on Parenting Tips during your open day. Your speech is focused to this area, “ What does it take to be a good parent?”. In your speech, describe the characteristics of a good parent. Give specific details to explain your views. Use your personal observations, experience, and knowledge.

It is a dream of every parent to see their children grow up and be a successful person. It is the duty of the parent to nurture their child since childhood so that they can shape their own future and ale to make a wise decision. Parent plays an important roles in educating their children. But not all parent know what it takes specifically to be a good parent to their children. First of all what it takes to be a good parent is to spend time with your children. One of the reasons why spending time with their children is important is because children need attention while growing up. Even teenagers need attention because they tend to be influenced by their peers. Negative influence can affect the children way of life. This also applies to young children. Sometimes young children cannot differentiate between what right and wrong. As a parent, we need to guide them and show what is good and what is bad. For example young children sometimes tend to take what doesn’t belong to them because they didn’t know that taking others belonging is consider stealing. So what the parent must do is by giving them advice that taking other’s belonging is wrong. Parent must guide them and give advice. Teach them to ask for apology and return the object that they took. The second important thing to be a good parent is to give love and affection. What is meant by this by appreciate what good things that they had done and give compliment to them. Why this is important is because so that they know that the parents are always aware of their achievement and appreciate what they are doing even outside the house for example in school. Sometimes parent can notice that their children rebel and show negative action. What the parent must do is not to be angry and start scolding their children instead, parent must aware that maybe their children’s action is to get their attention. Children tend to misbehave in order to get the attention of their parent. The third important thing to be considered in order to become a good parent especially when the parents have more than 1 child is do not compare between the children. What is meant by this is each child has their own way of thinking and interest. What parent must do instead of comparing them with their sibling is start encourage them and use the child’s sibling as inspiration. Comparing the child with their siblings can demotivate them in learning especially. For example if the child interest is more on art instead of mathematics, as a parent we should guide them and encourage them to achieve their ambition. By showing support, they will try their best to do what they like instead of following their parent and doing something that they don’t like and this will affect their future. Comparing among siblings can be good if the purpose is to motivate the child for example by saying that the child can be successful like their sibling no matter what path of life they are choosing. The fourth way of what it takes to be a good parent is by showing a good example. What is meant by this parent must be a role model. Maybe in school children think of the teacher as the role model but at home actually parent is the role model. Considering that children spend most of their time at home, they usually like to observe and imitate the action of people surrounding. For example if the children came from a good education background, the children is most probably will be a good learner and a good student. This is because the children tend to imitate their parents. If the parent likes to read newspaper, the children will become interested and follow their parent. Parent also will be a role model in the term of showing moral values. For example if the parent always takes care of personal hygiene, the children also will always take care of their cleanliness. Other aspects that must be consider being a good parent is by providing education and their needs. This is because children need to live in comfort. By fulfilling their personal needs include cloth, food and many more. This is because to achieve excellence in education they must have all the needs such as stationary and reading materials. As a parent, it is not wrong to spend extra money on children education. This is for the sake of their future. Children with insufficient needs in education tend to demotivate. They will always compare what they got from their parents with their peers.