Parental Role
The most interesting topic for me this week is parental
role. If we look in the history, mostly people would become parents in their
young ages and there was not any family planning back then. But Today, almost
everything is planned in our lives, even though plans work out only for few
things and we are still exposed to many unexpected things. Now days people are
having kids in their older age in compare to the people in the past time. Men
who become fathers in their 30s are more likely to spend more time with their
kids because most of the time they finish their education and they already have
good jobs. And exactly the same experience is faced by moms; they spend more
time with their kids when they have kids in old age. (Text book Chapter 11).
Becoming a parent brings many responsibilities in every one’s
life. In order to become good parents people fulfill most of the responsibilities.
Parenting is the toughest job for people but it can be easier and less
stressful when mom and dad have good relationship and they believe in
cooperation to raise their kids. When one partner expects all the work for
raising a kid from other person, then this job becomes stressful and
overwhelming. Due to this kids get closer to one parent who takes care of them
and the other parent never gets respect and love from the family. So, in order
to keep family happy parents should have the ability to work together.
I agree with you here parenting is very hard! In fact, I think it is the most difficult thing I have ever done. Working together is the key to raising kids, especially teens and pre-teens who have learned thegood cop/bad cop game. The text suggests older parents are more able to spend time with their children, this should have positive impacts on child rearing! :)
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