Parental Guidance: What Environment Are You Creating For Your Children?

Parenting is all about providing a protected, stable, nurturing and safe environment where kids can explore and grow, according to Child Psychologist, Dr. Alison Gopnik. A child's environment can influence his development. Thus it is important for parents to know the different features of the environment to help them ensure that their children are receiving what they need to develop and grow optimally.

Nutrition is greatly significant for everybody, but it's particularly significant for little children as it is linked directly to all aspects of their development and growth according to ChildrensHeartCenter.org. Thus, a lack of it can delay the maturation of the child's body and brain. Proper nutrition must begin even before a child is born and must proceed for the rest of his life.

The way the guardians or parents treat their children has an effect on the child's development and growth. A supportive and warm environment can help little children fine-tune on growing and learning rather than worrying in gaining compliment and acceptance. Helping little children gain new things and solve problems can nurture and help them grow effectively.

Expose children to brand-new things or else they will never learn to develop intellectual areas. As said by World Health Organization, insufficient learning opportunities can disrupt child development. Playing games, playing dramatic acts, readings and making arts and crafts can motivate healthy child development.

In a report featured in the Big Think, Dr. Gopnik said that instead of focusing on establishing one kind of show - winning certain flower, caregiving is about making an entire ecosystem with robustness, flexibility and variability so that when situations change still something will grow. Parents have the main responsibility of making the proper environment for their children as this will influence their growth and development.