A parent is not just the loving mother who holds you close for nine months, then several years, or the father who plays baseball with you and intimidates his daughter's dates. . This is someone who is there for you from the beginning, guiding you to the right path of knowledge and teaching you to stay on the right path independently. A parent does not need to have biological associations with the child to be a parent to him or her. A parent must have certain characteristics to be rightly called a parent. For many years, psychologists have been defining ways for parents around the world to properly support a child until adulthood. Some people end their parenting practice after the child turns 18, and others have this duty as a lifelong job. Over the years, generations and media change very constantly and play a role in how children act and react to certain stimuli. A study was done in 2009 and Poughkeepsie residents responded to a survey that found that, overall, every age group finds raising a child more difficult today than in previous generations, but more the parent is older, the longer the generation gap would be greater and this takes into account the difficulty of understanding how media works with a child's psychological configuration. What a child watches on a television screen is what he will imitate through his behavior. However, parenting is not a book written by a doctor, parenting is about raising a family and creating memories, while also ensuring that your children live in an environment that is nurturing for their emotional, mental and physical health. The accepted goal of a parent is to ensure that their child(ren) grow up and become mature and capable of both providing for themselves and a middle of paper ......s Correlates. ERIC Digest.Extreme Parenting (March 28, 2011) Web. November 20, 2014. Ishak, Z., Low, SF and Lau, PL (2012). Parenting style as a moderator of student academic achievement. Journal of Science Education and Technology, 21(4), 487-493. Parsasirat, Z., Montazeri, M., Yusooff, F., Subhi, N., and Nen, S. (2013). The most effective types of parents when it comes to children's academic success. Asian Social Sciences, 9(13), p229.Talib, MBA, Abdullah, R. and Mansor, M. (2011). Relationship between parenting style and children's behavior problems. Asian Social Science, 7(12), p195.Timpano, KR, Keough, ME, Mahaffey, B., Schmidt, NB and Abramowitz, J. (2010).Parenting and obsessive-compulsive symptoms: Implications of authoritarian parenting. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 24(3), 151-164.