Is it a surprise that many children nowadays don’t bond with their parents as much as previous generations? There are all sorts of reasons for it but in this blog I will be discussing about babysitting and relationship between kids and their parents. Many parents are usually very busy “chasing dollars”. As a result, they don’t have time to take care of their children. The kids go to school in the morning and after school they spend time with a babysitter or someone the parents trust. It only makes sense that “you take care of your own children”. Someone else who is just getting paid to take care of your kids will not really care for your kids like the way he/she would take care of his/her own kids. What happens is that at the end of the day the parents pick up the kids, take them home, probably eat dinner with them, and then just go to sleep.
What is really happening is that the kids are growing up without adequate interaction with their parents. Parents buy the kids food, clothes, toys, and anything else they need or want. But material objects does not replace the interaction between parents and their kids. Eventually when the kids do something and the parents react and yell at them or even beat them, they react by being mad/rebellious, etc. Parents that raise their own kids also yell at their kids time to time as kids do things that sometimes needs a bit of yelling or lecturing to correct the habit or problem. However, parents who don’t spend much time with their kids, in most cases, tend to have greater difficulty communicating with their kids especially when there is misunderstandings or when the parents are trying to discipline the kids.
Philosophy, psychology, and biology has come a long way yet in present day we have so much psychological-biological disorder. What I mean by that is that from an evolutionary perspective parents take care of their own offspring and do the best they can to raise their offsprings. Another animal will not care about some other animal’s offspring . When we apply that scenario with humans….we care for each others offspring but in most cases we simply just watch the kids and feed them because we are paid to do that. It is rare for a babysitter to truly treat someone elses kids as if he/she is treating their own kids. That being said, I don’t think it is in our best interest to just leave them with other people while we earn money and wind up building a mental-emotional gap.When it comes to raising your own kids-it is a good idea to spend some time with them and not just say good morning and good night. Nowadays most parents work for many hours and it’s completely understandable and justified but somehow parents need to get together with their kids more often and spend some time communicating with them besides buying them clothes and toys just to see them smile.
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