While having a profound impact on the development of values is surely an important job of a good parent, force-feeding opinions to them is not.
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When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn't really about disapproval; it's about honing your own sensibilities, figuring out how you want to parent.
Kids are very sensitive to the value system of their parents, and I just felt my parents were attaching too much importance, too much meaning, to things.
Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism.
Ultimately, very few people parent their kids in ways that strike anybody else as reasoned, appropriate or sane.
Parents are supposed to instill a sense of right and wrong in their children and then keep up the due diligence necessary to make sure they don't veer off that path.
Parents have no greater responsibility in this world than the bringing up of their children in the right way, and they will have no greater satisfaction as the years pass than to see those children grow in integrity and honesty and make something of their lives.
Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.
It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.
There's so much that can influence kids and young adults now, you just have to raise them the best you can and hope they make the right decisions.
I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.