Positive Parenting: The Need for Redesigning India for 21st Century

Redesinging India for 21st Century implies a community of changed men and women. Here comes the role that Psychology can play. Value of Psychology as more as its being an applied Science. Change in man is related to human development, a field of study in Psychology. Psychologists have found that the Environment, particularly the home Environment structured by parenting determines the basic core of man’s make-up and lays the foundation for significant development, Recent researches in Psychology have related hat positive parenting may go a long way to achieve the objective of shaping child’s personality in such a way that he becomes well-integrated, value-oriented, morally strong, disciplined, sincere faithful and committed to the entire nation. If so, efforts can be made on making India a Great nation in 21st Century. Psychology as a Science of national reconstruction must, therefore, train the parents in behavior modification techniques for positive parenting on the lines of programmes run at Juniper Gardens of Kansas City (U.S.A.) and the Achievement Place, a farm house in Lawrence, at Maryland and Alabama by Psychologists like Lindsey, Bijou, Florence, Vance Hall, Montrose Wolf, Donald M. Beer, Risley,Kahen and others. Cohen in Maryland (U.S.A.) had claimed in 1974 to have a plan to manage the behavior of a whole community of Prince Georges country. These Psychologists claim to have succeeded in human engineering and declare to move, in future, to social engineering. Something like that in the form of extension programmes for training the parents in positive parenting must be done in India by Indian Psychologists at their universities and colleges. This paper discusses psychological strategy for bringing about human change needed for redesigning Indian for 21st century. It may be considered a strategy of national reconstruction through change in man of Indian society.

• Positive Parenting
• India
• Community
• Environment
• Psychology

Bhatnagar, Dr. Anurag(2018). Positive Parenting: The Need for Redesigning India for 21st Century. IPEM JOURNAL OF INNOVATION IN TEACHER EDUCATION, 3(1), 2-5.