I dont tend to judge other people, especially when it comes to their parenting skills. Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on the planet, and each one of us has a very difficult task in keeping our child on the right path. Making decisions and choices for another person they may ultimately determine their fate in life, is an overwhelming responsibility and one that should not be taken lightly.
Making mistakes is all part of the parenting process and parents make plenty of them along the way. One approach that some parents take is to become friends with their children, but if children think of the parent as a buddy, then that could cause an unwelcome dynamic. The parent is tasked with making difficult decisions whether the child likes it or not.
A recent show brought to light many challenges that teens face today. They all have cell phones, are obsessed with texting, and many are playing something called the punch out game. The one common thread the show offered was that parents are allowing the children to walk all over them with no consequences.
As a parent, your job is not to keep your child happy, although it is nice when they are happy, it is not a requirement. Your job as a parent is to provide your children with their basic needs and to keep them safe, this may not always be possible, however it is the goal. In this particular show, I saw parents who were unwilling to take away their kids rights in order to protect them. I saw parents, and even some grandparents who thought that it was okay to repeatedly punch their child in the face, all in jest and then laughed at the videos of their children getting punched on You Tube. Now I would think that a parent would be able to figure out that repeated blows to your childs head, just for fun, could cause them permanent brain damage. I just dont think that some people get it.
This seems like a lack of good common sense, but at any rate, we must wonder what to expect from these children as they grow up and become parents later on. They say that children emulate their parents when raising their own families, and if that is so, then we will have a generation that is literally raising themselves.
Making mistakes is all part of the parenting process and parents make plenty of them along the way. One approach that some parents take is to become friends with their children, but if children think of the parent as a buddy, then that could cause an unwelcome dynamic. The parent is tasked with making difficult decisions whether the child likes it or not.
A recent show brought to light many challenges that teens face today. They all have cell phones, are obsessed with texting, and many are playing something called the punch out game. The one common thread the show offered was that parents are allowing the children to walk all over them with no consequences.
As a parent, your job is not to keep your child happy, although it is nice when they are happy, it is not a requirement. Your job as a parent is to provide your children with their basic needs and to keep them safe, this may not always be possible, however it is the goal. In this particular show, I saw parents who were unwilling to take away their kids rights in order to protect them. I saw parents, and even some grandparents who thought that it was okay to repeatedly punch their child in the face, all in jest and then laughed at the videos of their children getting punched on You Tube. Now I would think that a parent would be able to figure out that repeated blows to your childs head, just for fun, could cause them permanent brain damage. I just dont think that some people get it.
This seems like a lack of good common sense, but at any rate, we must wonder what to expect from these children as they grow up and become parents later on. They say that children emulate their parents when raising their own families, and if that is so, then we will have a generation that is literally raising themselves.
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