GOOD PARENTING: SUCCESS OF HUMAN RACE

Parents are the chief architects in shaping of an individual. The quality of relationship with parents is key factor for the wholesome development of an individual. Parents are supposed to create a most congenial, happy, democratic, lucid and warm atmosphere (Erickson, 1974), where a child can blossom his own hidden potentialities and may develop social interaction skills (Bhardwaj, 1995). Thus, parenting is an ultimate runway on which the complete development of a child's personality i.e. intellectual, social, economic and spiritual growth can be enhanced. Parenting is both a biological and a social process; and is fundamental to the survival and success of the human race (Lerner et al., 2002).