Nature And Parenting
From
Ilya Shambat@21:1/5 to
All on Thu Jun 29 18:08:44 2023
When I was in grade school, there was a girl there named Anna Famberg. She looked dumpy, got bad grades and had behavioral problems. Then in 6th grade she comes in; and she’s composed, she’s elegant and she is getting good grades. And her name is
Anna Filipovich.
Sometimes parenting makes all the difference. Parenting can be done in any number of ways, and some are better than others. A parent can be the difference between someone going to Harvard and someone going to jail.
As any parent knows, children are not, as Locke said, “tabula rasa.” Different children come with different temperaments and different personalities. Children are however impressionable, and it is of vital significance that the influence that the
parent exercises on the child is a valid one.
Some parents justify mistreating their children by claiming that their children are bad. I can think of no more contemptible standpoint. If you think that your child is bad, give her up for adoption, as you have no chance of being a good parent.
I have been blessed with a wonderful daughter. She gets a lot of love both from me and from her mother. Here is someone with a good nature who is also being parented well. She is doing well in school, has lots of friends and is in no kind of trouble.
What the child becomes is a function both of their nature and the parenting that they have received. I have known good parents whose children wound up badly; I have known bad parents whose children wound up well. The parent is not in control of the child
s propensities, but he is in control of the influence that he exercises over the child. Parents need to be taught to be loving and to treat their children better. And if they think that the child is bad, then they should cease parenting the child and
give a chance to someone who would be better to the child.
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