Monday, March 29, 2010
Quality Parenting
This post is written in a very harsh, one sided mind. I wrote this post this way to get people to think of the extreme opposite of what our culture is becoming. Many children today are born into this world to parents who don't have enough money to cover their needs, who are uneducated, or who are just busy. Parents argue that they don't have time to read a whole book to their kids at night, or they don't have time to set time aside to work out for their own health. Today in class we discussed the quality and quantity of parenting. In class, we started discussing how more than a minute is needed of book reading to reap the well studied benefits. I think that the excuse of having no time for your kids, but knowing the benefits of things like reading to your children, is child abuse. It is not fair to the child to bring them into a world where the parents are not completely focused on making their life great. I know that children are a blessing and can greatly improve your life but, maybe if all children that are brought into this world are 100% planned and prepared for we wouldn't have the growing problems we do today. Maybe parents would be more willing to shape their life around their child. A biology professor on campus told my anatomy class that he thought parents should have to prove their commitment to each other and to the child they want to have. When all children are born, in this professor’s world, their ability to have children is taken away until they find a mate and prove commitment to the mate and child. He thought that by making parents save up $100,000 in an emergency fund for the child before the child is even conceived then this would ensure children had money for college if an emergency never happened in the child’s life. This would also limit the number of children parents have making the world population decrease and the bond between parents and child stronger. Yes, I realize this idea is crazy. I wouldn't want the government monitoring my family that closely, but he has a good point. I do believe it is neglect and child abuse to say you don't have enough time for your kids! Life is way to short to say you don't have enough time to keep yourself or your child healthy. So please, cut back on the silly material things in life, and spent time not money on those you love. Turn off the TV for one whole week and just talk with your family or roommates, take in the world around you, go for a walk, or read your child a book. I think this experiment will greatly improve your quality of life. You may even learn something about yourself.
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While I would not go as far as saying that it’s child abuse for not always having enough time for your children, I do believe that it is unfortunate because this is time that cannot be made up. I do have to say that while in a nice little world where mom and dad work the eight to five shifts, come home and have dinner on the table by six would be great life. However, this is not the real world. I don't agree that a particular amount should be required in your bank account to be a parent. In order to start progress in your savings account most people have to work and you don’t start at the top right out of high school, this is a process that goes well into your prime years for starting a family. So if little Johnny only gets read stories on the weekends or a couple times during the week, I think that it will not be detrimental to him. His parents are probably doing a great job keeping a roof over his head, warm bed to sleep in at night, even if sometimes the bedtime story is a short one.
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