The story of Ryan, Linda and Rob Robertson is another example of how religion and customs can make a life miserable.
Parenting is not an easy task. Being in charge of another human being is a great responsibility, and one that should be taken seriously.
Parents are also people, somebody's kids. Parents, as any person, drag through out their life experiences from childhood, ideas and expectations, and all that might translate in conflicts with their brand new families.
Some parents fight the idea of becoming their own parents, some others struggle to be exactly as their parents, ignoring that each social group or family has their own identity.
It is necessary to adapt the parenting skills to the individuals being parented. One size does not fits all.
Parents who need to deal with juvenile delinquency, drugs, academic failure, and many other behavioral problems with their children, need to know that no one have a guaranteed solution for their problems. Therapists try theories that might work or not, the judicial system focus on punishment, so it is just through real love that we can help our loved one to find their way.
Parents don't need to know it all. People come to the world to experience different situations. Just look around and see how different people live and everyone was born from a mother and a father. People in prison, people in universities, people in satellites in outer space, people farming, people in Wall Street. Why so many different types of lives? Because humans are unique. We have free-will. We have God's given freedom to develop, to evolve at our own pace.
Expectations cause us to become disappointed. Most people cannot live up to our expectations and we just move on, but when those "most" people are our children a sense of entitlement push us to force them to do our way. Sometimes it works. Sometimes won't.
Parents who have tried their best to guide and even "correct" their children out of love and good intentions, should never feel guilty or have regrets for the outcome. As we said before, we have free-will and ultimately our children will make their own decisions, no matter what.
We are all souls going through a learning process, nobody knows the absolute truth, it might not even exist absolutes in the Universe. Jesus teachings are very specific regarding to how we should treat our neighbor, our enemy, and to those who offended us. Forgive and love all those around you as you love yourself.
Click on the link to read the story that inspired me to write this post.
http://justbecausehebreathes.com/
Parenting is not an easy task. Being in charge of another human being is a great responsibility, and one that should be taken seriously.
Parents are also people, somebody's kids. Parents, as any person, drag through out their life experiences from childhood, ideas and expectations, and all that might translate in conflicts with their brand new families.
Some parents fight the idea of becoming their own parents, some others struggle to be exactly as their parents, ignoring that each social group or family has their own identity.
It is necessary to adapt the parenting skills to the individuals being parented. One size does not fits all.
Parents who need to deal with juvenile delinquency, drugs, academic failure, and many other behavioral problems with their children, need to know that no one have a guaranteed solution for their problems. Therapists try theories that might work or not, the judicial system focus on punishment, so it is just through real love that we can help our loved one to find their way.
Parents don't need to know it all. People come to the world to experience different situations. Just look around and see how different people live and everyone was born from a mother and a father. People in prison, people in universities, people in satellites in outer space, people farming, people in Wall Street. Why so many different types of lives? Because humans are unique. We have free-will. We have God's given freedom to develop, to evolve at our own pace.
Expectations cause us to become disappointed. Most people cannot live up to our expectations and we just move on, but when those "most" people are our children a sense of entitlement push us to force them to do our way. Sometimes it works. Sometimes won't.
Parents who have tried their best to guide and even "correct" their children out of love and good intentions, should never feel guilty or have regrets for the outcome. As we said before, we have free-will and ultimately our children will make their own decisions, no matter what.
We are all souls going through a learning process, nobody knows the absolute truth, it might not even exist absolutes in the Universe. Jesus teachings are very specific regarding to how we should treat our neighbor, our enemy, and to those who offended us. Forgive and love all those around you as you love yourself.
Click on the link to read the story that inspired me to write this post.
http://justbecausehebreathes.com/
