QUALITATIVE FACTORS AFFECTING CHILD REARING PRACTISES IN TAMENGLONG DISTRICT, MANIPUR: AN ANALYSIS

This article is an attempt to focus the different qualitative factors affecting child rearing practises. Rather than single broad factor, child rearing constitutes of various factors that together determine how children are brought up by their parents. Techniques like Introspection, Observation, Interviewing, and Meta-analysis helps in the identification of the qualitative factors affecting child rearing practises. The different factors affecting that are identified include Acceptance, Punishment, Protectiveness, Responsibility, Responsiveness, Reward, Understanding, Non critical, Permissiveness, Encouragement, Rapport, Emotional stability and Patience. This multi-factor approach to child rearing would throw some understanding upon the different aspects of parenting and also helps parents and prospective parents to concentrate on those aspects which need improvement on their part of parent skills.