Parenting a natural phenomenon?

For most of us, we become parents because we gave birth to a child. It's like we automatically become parents because we have children. We take parenting as a natural phenomenon and never once thought that it is a huge and vital task in human development. Due to such perception, we proceed our parenting job by providing what we thought as important for our children. For example, we feed them,clothed them, put them to sleep and we talk and play with them, accordingly. What we are doing is providing all the basic necessities for our child. Well, that's not wrong folks. It's just not enough! This natural way of parenting, providing just the basics, will let our child grow, but not towards holistic strength and excellence. A child needs to grow in at least four different domains: Physical, mental, social, and emotional. When what we do is only providing the basics for our child, these four areas will develop at a minimum level. If we wish for our child to achieve the optimum level, we need to go beyond the basics. For example for the physical domain, we provide our child with balance meal each time and on time, enough sleep and play & exercise, ensure that he is clean and healthy, his living environment is well organized, clean and healthy, free from dust, germs and thrash, and there's good flow of oxygen coming in and carbon dioxide going out. See folks, that's a lot of work and commitment. The same goes for the other domain, we have to work them out well in order to achieve the max. To get to the best we need to pack ourselves with the right and best knowledge (K), attitude (A), and practices (P) in parenting and child development. Parenting with good KAP will encourage good child development in all the four domains. Before this entry ends, let ask ourselves these questions...Is it good parenting on our part when our child do well academically, but not so in term of religious practices and reading the Quran? Our parenting produce good outcome for the material living, but not so for spirituality? Would letting parenting take its natural course lead to the best child outcome? InsyaaAllah, this simple entry and questions would help to trigger all parents to go beyond the natural course of parenting.