Some thoughts on PARENTING...

I have come across situations when a child perpetually misbehaves, the helpless parent would just say sternly to the child, "If you don't listen, I will call the police to catch you!". It might be a common tactic used by some parents, but I think there are some repercussions to this. First of all, I think the parent would gradually lose his or her authority over and in disciplining the children. In addition, there is an indirect shirking of responsibility of the parent. Such parents would find it increasingly more difficult to control the children on their own, as the children are growing up.

There is another scenario, when a child accidentally trips and starts crying because it hurts, some parents would go to the child, help him or her up and then hit the floor several times with their palms, to tell the children that it was the floor that caused his or her fall. The reason the child falls is because he or she is not careful, what has that got to do with the floor? As a result, unknowingly, the children would grow up, always thinking of passing on the responsibility to somebody else when something goes wrong and avoid taking personal responsibility for what had happened.