Parenting facilitates this process by nurturing children from birth to adulthood. In pedagogical spheres it has become common knowledge to regard adulthood as the aim of parenting and education, that is to view the person’s life as unrelenting progress towards adulthood. This experiential approach has been supported by the qualitative research method of reviewing and analyzing available literature about parenting and ubuntu. In this chapter I have applied the experience of being African as the ground to explore the Ubuntu parenting founded on the African and ecological systems perspective. This chapter has discussed how the decorations of Ubuntu can be applied in the parenting dynamics of the twenty- first century. Thus, parenting models continue to be reviewed and interrogated. Admittedly, parenting facilitates and nurtures child development.

Parenting is both an art and science of child nurturing. Ubuntu is also applicable in psychology around child development and parenting. The principle has been tested and applied in many professions and faculties such as leadership, theology, sociology, education, and health. Over the past decades, a significant amount of empirical and theoretical work has accumulated about the principle of Ubuntu. Ubuntu is a well-defined principle and way of life in many African communities.

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