Post 6: Parenting

 “…good parenting does not come easy… you can’t go to college and get a degree in parenting.”

These are some of what Richard Patterson wrote in his book “Families with Faith.” Parenting is basically about “handling.” Instilling proper values and discipline but it is not all about that, it is also about how parents set and prepare an individual physically, emotionally and intellectually.

I have a question to all the parents out there, Are you there for your sons and daughters in their bed time? Or in times when they needed you the most? When they needed a help for their homework? When someone fights them? Could they approach you easily? Or do they still need to set an appointment with you just to talk to you?

I read a story about a son who was thirsty for his father’s attention; the little kid asked how much does his father earn for a month and his father got angry because he raised such question but his son was actually planning to buy the time of his father. – “How much Dad"


Giving a little time and attention actually means a lot for children. Especially at the infant to elementary school stage of one’s life, which is the very delicate stages of an individual’s life because, it is going to be his foundation and at this stage he is starting to build a life.

At the moment a child comes out from the mother and learns how to speak mama and papa until he learns how to walk by his own.  We should know how to mold them. Richard Patterson stated that parents can’t program their children like a computer to turn them out just the way they wanted. You can’t dictate what your children are going to be. But you could mold them, on how they should think, how they should acts and how they are going to be in front of other people, on how they communicate and more.

I am not a parent but I know that even though I grew up in a broken family, my mother molded and raised me properly.  She never told me anything against my father but instead she explained to me one by one, what is happening in our situation. I knew in her part it was very complicated because, she should choose the right words to say and right actions to show.

Being a parent is being a good example to your children. Not only to supply your children’s needs and to give a lot of material things but, it is training your child with proper ethics and introducing them in the real world. To know which is wrong or which is right. It is like holding a bird; when you hold it too tight it might die and if it’s too loose it might escape.