@wolfje to be the best parent is not an easy task . You have to sacrifice some of your time for your child. When your child does something bad ket him or her no that it is bad and it must not repeat itself again. Give your child love and affection. Sometimes the best thing you can give your child is love and affection.
You are right, love and affection is very important. However there are other factors at stake as well. For instance, your wife is away shopping and you’re looking after 2 kids at the same time. How are you going to give them both the attention they crave and need? Especially when they’re at the age where they still have differing interests. He Moment you give your younger attention the elder gets jealous, this is both wrong and natural. How do you deal with that? I don’t want to give to much away as this is one of those topics that I do want to base another post on. However just going back to your remark, it’s not always easy to give them the love and affection that they should get and deserve.