Good Parenting Skills

  • Love and Affection:
    “You support and accept the child, you are physically affectionate, and spend quality one-on-one time together.”
  • Stress Management:
    “You take steps to reduce stress for yourself and your child, practice relaxation techniques, and promote positive interpretations of events.”
  • Relationship Skills:
    “You maintain a healthy relationship with your spouse, significant other, or co-parent and model effective relationship skills with others.”
  • Autonomy and Independence:
    “You treat your child with respect and encourage him or her to become self-sufficient and self-reliant.”
  • Education and Learning:
    “You promote and model learning and provide educational opportunities for your child.”
  • Behavior Management:
    “You make extensive use of positive reinforcement and use punishment only when other methods of managing behavior have failed.”
  • Health:
    “You model a healthy lifestyle and good habits, such as regular exercise and proper nutrition.”
  • Religion:
    “You support spiritual or religious development and participate in spiritual or religious activities.”
  • Safety:
    “You take precautions to protect your child and maintain awareness of the child’s activities and friends.”