What is a parents role?
August 31st, 2009 | 
Author: I have been having to think a lot lately, for all sorts of reasons, what a parents actual role is.
To nurture, and protect.. Sounds simple enough dosn’t it.
But to nurture and protect from whom?
Nurture is easy.. To nurture a child is to let them become who they want to become. To allow them to be sad, happy, upset, cross, angry, loving, to discover there bodies, minds and develop there own interests..
To protect. From themselves, the state, others, people whos ideas i dont agree with… fears, phobias, electricity… what are we meant to protect our kids from, and what is it we arent… In olden times… as asha calls anything from before she was born… but i will think back to my childhood.
We were able to go out alone, at the age of five. I used to cross the road to play with my friends without supervision, and was trusted to come straight home if they wernt in..
We used to play in the road, as a group unsupervised, and no neighbour would say it was antisocial.. Its playing for goodness sake.
We could play drs and nurses in each others bedrooms, and no parent, or grandparent would go up the wall, because a boy was in the girls bedroom!
Are kids today allowed freedom, or are they sufficated by social rules and expectations, and what is the role of a parent…
Comments please…
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