The best way to foster a strong influence and nurturing relationship with children is to engage in their lives. You start with your fundamentals and their young age and with them growing, you engage more with their interests and passions. This builds a bridge that shows them that they can come to you as a parent with anything and that's how you hold that influence in their lives and mold them to be strong individuals

Most of the time, this isn't necessarily the parents' fault when a child takes the wrong path in their lives. A parent can only have so much influence over their children growing up. They instill the foundation for them to grow with. From there the children come across social statuses, peer pressure and society's standards and everything there takes more influence on how the child becomes has they grow into young adults. What parents need only do, is to make sure they're kids' surroundings align with what they want for them, that's the best they can do.