Good parent articles

Every once in a while I receive a newsletter by e-mail or read an article on a magazine titled something like: 5 Ways to Know If You Are A Good Parent.  The truth is I usually never read the article that follows, but instead wonder: Is there such a thing?  Can we really judge a parent using a 5 or 6 item checklist?  At least not in my parenting world.  Parenting is so much more that that.  First of all, our job as parents is 24/7 and it definitely involves more than 5 or 6 things that belong to a checklist.  Secondly, most of us try hard to do be the best parents we can be.  We read parenting articles, books, look for information in the web and ask our friends for ideas on how to deal with different situations.  So even if we meet only 4 of the 6 criteria, but are trying hard to be our best, that does not make us a not so good parent.  Being a parent takes a lot of heart, time, effort and definitely much more than using only 5 or 6 skills.  Therefore, if I were to create my own heading for an article relating to parenting, it would read something like: 5 Skills That Will Help You be the Best Parent You Can Be, because the list is really never ending....  Limiting the concept of becoming a good parent to a checklist consisting only of 5 or 6 skills is, in my opinion, undermining the concept of parenting since the list is really quite extensive and the job is not that simple.