Reading about a dozen web sites you can get the distinct feeling
that a functional family doesn't exist! Though the majority anti parents
is done by teenagers many grown ups really don't have nice things to
say about their families. Is blogging only done by discontents?
The
roughest blogs are written by teenage girls mainly against their
mothers--could it be a normal mother/daughter step to adulthood? Teenage
boys also moan and groan but what I found surprising it is against
their mothers! In the 'old days' the model was mother stayed at home and
took care of the kids and father went out to work and brought home the
money for all material things like a roof over their head, food on the
table and clothes on their back. Now we have mothers in the work force,
fathers being stay at home dads and the kids run everything. Are the
inmates running the asylum?
Stepping aside, being
objective, who has the harder role in parenting today? Has the father
never gotten the "How to be a Dad" book or did he never read it? Is he
doing what his father did not changing with the times? Is the mother a
helicopter mom (hovering over the child too much) or is she busy with
outside activities whether is be work or volunteering and turning her
kids over to day care or a nanny or grandma? Or has nothing changed as
far as parenting goes since 1944?
Though it is hard to do
(and shouldn't be) but for the purposes here put aside the 9 months of
pregnancy and the actual childbirth (ARGHHHHHHHHHHHH) who do you think
has the harder job raising the child? The bigger responsibility? And why
are so many families dysfunctional?
For this blog let's
not hear from functional families and what a "Leave it to Beaver"
childhood you had and how great your  "Father Knows Best" was--I promise
I will have a post where you can crow all you want!
Ladies,
where do you think te fathers are failing? What would you do if you
were a father? Men the same questions for you---what do you think you
could do that mothers aren't doing and what do you think men can do that
they aren't? And let loose--your spouse and/or kids won't read this!!!
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