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Abstract:
Early childhood care and development is a responsibility that should be shouldered by virtually all the stake-holders; be it government, parents and society. However, this paper restricts itself to parents. Of all the aforementioned stakeholders in early childhood education, parents are expected to play pivotal but crucial role in the area of care and development of their children/wards. This view is predicated not only on the bare fact that they are biologically tied to their children but also spend abundant time with these children with a view to meeting their emotional, social, educational and physiological needs. Besides, early childhood period calls for a solid foundational but concerted efforts of parents to give care that could engineer development. Parents, therefore, have crucial roles to complement the efforts of the school and the community in order to ensure an unshaken growth and development in children. It is on this premise that this paper explores and overhauls the pivotal roles of parents that could galvanise and stimulate care, growth, and development of children in Nigeria specially and the world in general.

Keywords: Parents, Parental Involvement, Early Childhood and Development

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