What makes good parents? Were your parents the best parents for you? What if you had different parents? Is it the way the children turn out, how they did in school?, how much money they make when they grow up?, If they enjoyed the growing up process enough to give you grandchildren? If your children get married? Or is there no criteria/benchmark that we can use to judge what makes someone a good parent.

Sure all parents are not the same and what will work for one child will not work for another child. That is why i believe that title of good or bad parent, will depends on the “child” produced. Though in some instances, the parents can do the best job as could expected as parents, and meet all the basic needs and appear to do all the correct things. and the children still “turn” out to be not model citizens. Vice versa if you judge some parents on child raising, they will fail miserably, yet their child grow up to be successful and have good lives. This either indicate that on a necessary required level that child was “failed” in some aspect or that some children will not be direct product or provide and adequate representation of their parents.

So what makes a good parent? So what are the key ingredients to being a good parent? Is it someone that is able to meet and surpass the basic needs of the children? Is it the person that can always provide, always be there, always take care of? Is it the parent of the best dress, most mannerly, always on time child? Is the parents of the child that gets the best grades, the best athlete in the school program? I think both the judge and the jury is still out debating it.
I think the most important ingredients are time, quality time and support. Understanding the kind of support your child needs and how to effectively get the information across are big factors into being a good parent. Meeting the children needs on all aspects could be used a guideline to good parent. As a parent you have to be willing to learn along with your child and adapt to the changes between your childhood and theirs. Quality time is essential and can be done in many ways, but good parents spend time talking and interacting with their kids on all levels, from current event and news, to comedy shows to just relaxing with each other, doing things together. Letting the children learn and see how the parents handle situations and the thought process involved in making decisions. The good parents will not only tell the children what should be done and how to do it, they will give the examples.

But i believe that the best parents for you might not be the best parents for me and that is what i think also. What one

child might need from his parents and household might be completely opposite of what another child needs in the same household. For one child, the supportive, always-there parents, might be bring along too much pressure and expectation that becomes burdensome as opposed to supportive and inspiring. A parent who is always involved might be to another child exactly is required for the child to learn how to be an adult while to another child it be what prevents them from grasping the real world because mommy or daddy always handles the situation for them. Is it the parent that allows the child to approach them freely and talk about everything, be a parent and a best buddy the best parent? Or is the best parent, the strict disciplinarian, who provides a rigid structure that governs the day to day activity of the child the best parent?

Or a mixture of them both? I cant say for sure, but that good parent will be able to based on their child.