Abstract:

Promotion of child development is a task of various educational factors directed at a child, primarily family and educational institutions. This paper accentuates the child’s family as a permanent, ever-present educational unit with which the child is most emotionally attached and which is, as such, the most significant participant in child development, crucial to its optimum course. The paper emphasizes the role of the family as a protective factor that ensures the child’s desirable development. If the child does not receive the support needed for his or her development in the family, certain undesirable behavioral deviations in child’s development are likely. It is therefore necessary for the child’s parents, as his most important educators, to choose engaged parenting and active upbringing, based on emotionally supportive and structured educational doing. Such parental practice protects from developing an undesirable parental education approach, in this work labeled as parenthood in resistance.

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