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What qualities must a person have to be considered a good parent?

To be a good parent you have to care for your child and take care of them. You should always put your child first. Your own chid is now your own responsibility. 

"Soon as I walked into the nursery, Mae Mobley smile at me, reach out her fat little arms." (pg. 5)This shows that Mae is happy for Aibileen's presents. A child gets attached to their mother very quickly and Mae goes to Aibileen for comfort. Miss. Leefolt doesn't like the fact that Mae is getting close to Aibileen because that hurts her that someone else can take care of her own child better than she can. Her daughter is going to someone else for love and attention. Thats all a child needs in life is attention and love from their parents, thats how that gain their trust in you and know that there is someone there for them, always. 
A parent should always before there for their child and comparing Miss. Leefolt and Aibileen, Aibileen is always there taking care of her.

http://www.counselingcorner.net/parents/care.html

This website shows great ways to communicate with your child that Miss. Leefolt seems to   fail but Aibileen succeeds at such as hug them frequtly, stay with them when they're afraid, laugh and giggle, smile, and most importantly notice them and acknowledge them frequently.

Is viewing The Kite Runner through a critical lens affecting my analysis?

Sometimes when knowing about the critical lens affects your analysis later on, but in the book The Kite Runner, makes me forget that this isn't based on a true story. Knowing that its fiction doesn't make me look at it any differently. It may change the way other people look at it because everyone has different views.

The conflict in this book with Baba and Amir, and rape of Hassan are both realistic problems that can happen in real life and that is a reason I forget this isn't based off of a true story.

This is a fiction book that seems so realistic. This book is a coming of age story and it also is shown as a memoir because of all the flashbacks he has from his childhood. If you ask questions based on this novel or any novel, not everyone would answer the same way as you. People have different opinions.