Parenting
Today I am going to talk about parenting. In my class we learned from Michael Popkins that in order to raise good and successful children, we as parents have to fulfill their needs. He states 5 things that children need from us, along with how we as parents can approach the situation to give them those needs, and then he teaches about the consequences of mistaken approaches due to us not satisfying their needs. The first need that parents should give their child is contact and belonging. Contact should be things like physical contact, eye contact, etc. These things are so important for a child's development. There have even been studies done where babies were not touched unless they were being fed or changed, and most of the babies ended up dying. Contact makes us feel important and it also helps us to feel like we belong. It is important for a child to feel like thy belong, and to receive contact from us otherwise they might try to make up for it in the wrong way. Popkins teache