Definition of Parenting

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Parenting

1. Performing the role of a parent by care-giving, nurturance, and protection of the child by a natural or substitute parent. The parent supports the child by exercising authority and through consistent, empathic, appropriate behaviour in response to the child's needs. Parenting differs from child rearing in that in child rearing the emphasis is on the act of training or bringing up the children and the interaction between the parent and child, while parenting emphasizes the responsibility and qualities of exemplary behaviour of the parent. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Parenting

parentheses
parenthesis
parenthesis-free notation
parenthesize
parenthesized
parenthesizes
parenthesizing
parenthesome
parenthetic
parenthetical
parenthetically
parenthetical expression
parenthood
parenthoods
parenting (current term)
parenting (current term)
parentings
parentless
parents
parents
parent artery
parent cell
parent cyst
parent material
pareo
pareos
parepicele
parepididymis
parepithymia
parer

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