The existing era of human being is deprived of so many priceless values and arts of living. The knack of parenting is no exception; in fact, it tops the list. In this age and time, the art of parenting is taken for granted by all parents. They believe themselves to be born perfect parents and start acting as if they were well versed in the art of parenting. But in the long run, they turn out to be unsuccessful and precarious parents for their progeny unknowingly. As a matter of fact, parenting is no kids’ stuff. It is an arduous act of art. Parenting is like preparing or nurturing a brand new generation.
Pragmatically speaking, food determines one’s mood and parenting decides the propensity of a progeny. Therefore, a failure in rearing and caring a child can cause so many disorders in a child. If parenting is aggressive in nature, it can even paralyze a child on physical, mental and spiritual levels. There are so many parenting styles to rear and care a child and each style has a different type of demand and responsiveness, and the resulting child is different for each style. According to a pediatrician from Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital, aggressive parenting style may be the cause or effect of sleep disorders in young children.
A study was conducted by the Harriet Hiscock in which he analyzed data from 4600 families in order to find out the impact of the parenting styles on the sleep behavior of children between the ages of one and three.
As per the finding of the study, “children were nearly twice as likely to have sleep disorders that continued through the toddler years, if their mother used ‘hostile or aggressive’ parenting style as a way of caring and rearing their children. In aggressive parenting a mother or father yells or screams at them always and give physical punishment such as beating, slapping, smacking and the like rather than being cordial and loving with the baby.
Beyond any shade of doubt, it is a big responsibility to be the parents of infants and toddlers. Pro-progeny parenting requires dedicated care, including but not limited to feeding, changing diapers, bathing, potty training, ensuring safety, teaching and health care with no chagrin and aggressiveness at all. Because aggressive parenting is more likely to cause sleep disorders in the children as per findings. Sleep disorders caused by aggressive parenting may be in the form of nightmares, night terrors and sleepwalking, resistance to going to bed, awakening during the night and the like.
It must be taken into consideration that sleep disorders can have pernicious repercussion on over all health and the development of the children in the long run. So, it is strongly recommended for the conscious parents to avoid aggressive parenting and adopt pro-progeny parenting style (a style of parenting which is in favor children).
The relationship between parents and children should be such that it may encourage or motivate children to express themselves with integrity and honesty. Parents should help their children have firm faith in themselves and let them understand that their lives, feelings, actions and all that jazz are their own responsibilities. Aggressive parenting not only causes sleep disorders in children but also make children zestless, serious, diffident, imitative and timid. A parenting with understanding can help children develop an enthusiastic, confident, jovial and valiant approach to learning and living.
Instead of being aggressive they should be permissive helping children transform their natural inquisitiveness into a strong inner discipline and motivation. Parents should be cognizant of this fact that each and every individual is endowed with some gift, some talent and treasure. All they need to do is to create as much space and develop as many opportunities as possible for the child’s creativity and individuality to unfold.
Ronald Eapen
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