Monitoring, supervision, and involvement
“When parents use praise and encouragement, show awareness and monitor adolescents' schoolwork and social life, their children tend to do better in school and show more socially positive behaviors.”
Warm and supportive relationships between the parent and child
“Adolescents with these types of relationships are less likely to be suspended from school, are less likely to have behavioral and emotional problems, and are less likely to abuse substances.”[1]
Islam directs parents to help their children achieve their potential. “It is the foremost duty of parents to arrange…….. so that they[their children] grow satisfactorily, develop their potential, express their abilities, become virtuous human being, a good citizen, and an ideal member of the society” http://www.islamawareness.net/Talaq/family2.html To follow through with their duty to help their children express their abilities a parent would of course need to support the expression of those abilities. To insure that their children become virtuous beings the parent would be involved in the child’s life monitoring how they behave so as to be able to determine where they need to encourage them more.
Any child would appreciate having supportive parents. As many non-religious parents are supportive what difference does it make whether a family is religious or not? This topic alone could be discussed in great length. One reason that the religious involvement helps more is that the parents in turn have a support network within the religion and have been show by example how to be supportive. And although it is also true that some religious families aren’t supportive for the most part these aren’t fully living their religion.
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