May 26, 2025 Parenting Dilemma
“If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.” - Betty Davis
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Few things get under my skin more than learning that a parent or parents are being abused by their child. The abuse I hear of most often is not physical but attitudinal-talking back or noncompliance with reasonable parental requests. Let me state at the outset that parenting is not easy. Good parenting is not for the faint of heart. It takes balls to be a parent! Ladies, this includes you too. Those little carbon units we bring into this world, come in all sizes, shapes, attitudes, levels of intelligence, shrewdness and boldness. Regardless of what type child you have, your job is always the same. Your job is to prepare that little person to survive and thrive in the world as it is, not as you wish it was. We as parents are obligated to make sure that our children can survive and prosper while we are living and especially when we are no longer on the planet. For me, parenting, at its lowest denominator, is about fairness. Giving and receiving respect in my own house is not negotiable, Period! To put it bluntly, we need to stop pleading and start leading. The choice is pretty straightforward. Either the parent or parents are going to run the house and if they don’t, the child is going to run the house, by default. So the first decision, a parent who wants to do the job right, has to make is who is going to be in charge of my house-me or my child? I think I will end here for now and let you walk around that question for a bit. I hope your answer is the one it should be. My next meditation will continue with the concept of leverage. Leverage – the concept that will help you begin to gain control of your house. Until next time, happy parenting.
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