User:Clementsb

To me, the perfect parent is one who is involved in their child’s life. They can be low income and not very successful, but if they are involved in their child’s life, the child can develop into a wonderful human being. I think that a perfect parent should do the child’s homework with him, play baseball with him, go shopping with her, and go out to buy her first make-up with her. I think that the parent should ask how the child’s day is and know what the child is doing on the weekends. I think the parent should give the child advice, but not to boss them around and allow the child to make their own decisions. A perfect parent is a loving and nurturing person who sets a positive example through his/her actions. This person maintains a delicate balance between administering discipline and freedom. The parent needs to prepare their child for living on their own in the world. A perfect parent can find the perfect balance between strict control and letting the child grow through their own experiences. The parent is there to give advice and keep the child in line from doing harmful and unacceptable actions, but also can let the child grow and experience life and learn lessons from those experiences. The parent is also there to punish children once they have done something “harmful” to themselves, others or something that isn’t beneficial to their positive growth. Perfect parents love their children unconditionally and want what’s best for them. They take responsibility, but at the same time know that they cannot always control what happens in the lives of their children. Perfect parents exhibit true wisdom in that they don’t believe every bit of parenting advice that they hear. My definition of a perfect parent is one who has a spouse that loves and supports them, is highly educated, is responsible, loving, accepting, and teaches how to accept compliments. A perfect parent shows discipline with integrity and allows for free thought. There is no definition of a perfect parent. According to Freakonomics, there is no way for a parent to be perfect. Children are going to be influenced by things out of both their control and their parents control. Children are influenced based on who their parents are, are they rich, successful, were they older or younger when they had their first child? There are two ways to look at a parent. A parent who takes there child out to museums and out to parks may have a more productive life than a child whose parents are drug addicts and alcoholics. This only effects the first few years of their life. Once they enter school, the parents effect the child’s development less and peers take on a larger role. There is no way for someone to be a perfect parent. A person can try to be a perfect parent, but kids are going to rebel at some point. They cannot try to be their child’s friend and then at the same time try to be a parent. On the same note, a parent can be strict. Either way, at some point the child is going to want to get away. A parent has to choose whether they want their child to resent them for being cool, or for being mean.