Parenting has no manual or rule book. Most parents do their best and what they think is right.
The majority of parents wants to do better than the previous generation.
These changes could be the parenting different styles or things like eating and drinking habits.
Drum speaks to Unisa's student counsellor Dr Joshua Ndlela, who is also in private practice. He says parenting is psychological.
"In other words, the social interaction between the child’s mind and how we were parented is a vital key to the child’s cognitive and emotional development."
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He says most parents only want the best for their children especially when it comes to their intellectual abilities, moral values and character development.
"Overly restrictive and overly permissive parenting might cause our children to lose self-confidence, self-worth and self-determination since they have no options to make their own decisions in life.
"Nevertheless, there is nothing wrong with be an active parent to your children and such actions would have its own dynamics.
"Seeing that we are living in a changing world economically and psychosocially. It is imperative for the newer parents to learn from their parents’ parenting styles with an aim to develop and design possible strategies of parenting to fit in this changing world. Parents may want to eradicate what was seen as a stagnation in the way we were treated by our own parents.
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"Change of times influences the way we should parent our own 21 century children and it does not mean the way our parents did to us was not effective and efficient."
"We ought to learn from our parental mistakes because it will reduce the stress and modify our way of parenting so that our children stay safe and be happy too.
"There is nothing wrong to modify the old ways of parenting to our children in order to fit with the challenges experienced by them now."
