Effective Predictive Parenting for Positive Academic Performance in Children: Implications for Professional Counselling

The quality of training a parent gives to his child at home goes a long way in determining his academic performance at school. Predictive parenting promotes intellectual curiosity, motivation and the desire to achieve academic excellence. This paper highlights the concepts of parenting, predictive parenting and academic performance of children, tips on effective predictive parenting such as setting objectives for the family, instituting effective parent-child communication and building harmony in the home. It equally highlights the role of professional counselling in helping parents adopt predictive parenting in families through the use of proactive counselling strategies such as school-Based family counselling, behaviour modification, parents fora and others. The paper recommends among other things that efforts should be intensified by governmental and non-governmental organizations to give adequate information to parents on predictive parenting that leads to positive academic performance in children. DOI: 10.5901/jesr.2013.v3n8p7