Nurturing and Parenting: Dual Role of Parent on the Child Development and Socialization

Abstract

Many culture believe that parenting begins with birth, but the mother begins raising and nurturing a child well before birth. In the world of child development and socialization, there are two terms that have close meaning and interconnected. Two of the term is "nurturing" and "parenting". Nurturing refers to all the effort of environments in raising children. In practice includes the care of the food, drink, clothing, and shelter. It could be parent as nuclear family, grandparent, nonparental child care, or the significant others. This term nurturing, basically used to explain that there is other factor that build individual differences beside nature factor. This term want to make it clear that what make us different with others is how our environment treat us. Is where we live around. Usually, we got it from the first social group called