It's the thought that counts

I was watching a show the other night called "Bones." Maybe some of you have seen it. As i was watching a few lines from the show caught my attention and made me think of some of the discussions we had in class about parenting. A main character in the show is an FBI agent with a 8 year old child and he's not married. He had been worried about his "dad" abilities and talked to the psychiatrist on the show. He asked if he was a bad dad for not sending his kid to private school. He was answered "No. You'd be a bad dad if you didn't think that." To me this added a new kind of level to our discussions in class. Now granted it is just a TV show but it is something more to think about. Even if parents don't have the abilities or resources to give their kids all they want, the fact that they still want to, or even think about it, still shows a greater level of caring that should translate to their children. Just because they can't offer the best doesn't mean they wouldn't if they could. As long as the child knows their parents would do more for them if possible should basically count as doing that act because the love or caring that would come out of the situation is still basically there in thought.