When a child comes to world, the family is the only place for learning the world around him for few years until the recognition of another world around him by the start of going out to streets for playing and the school. But for a long time thats the place where people learn the basics from their parents.
This learning is essential because the new borned children dont have an idea about anything around him. However this learning has to end after a while. The time for it can’t be easily named but it’s also neccessary that parents have to stop teaching the kid their values. It’s obvious that family is the basic and the smallest constitution of learning and safety but overproctection and “overteaching” won’t help the kid at all. After a point, the boy/she have to find their own way of looking of world and although having some basics from their parent’s values or they will continue living their parent’s lives. That’s not ok, because every person is an individual and each have to have a chance to choose their own lives.
Family helps their child in order to be successful and not fail the subjects that they did in their lives. However helping after an extend won’t help anyone becuase on of the good ways of learning is to experiencing them by themselves.
It sounds a bit frightening but when a person hears from his / her parents, it might help them to avoid the mistake for once or twice if they are lucky. Becuase words are not permanent, they can be forgetted easily. And the parent’s continuosly repeating won’t be nice after a while and it even might end at going for it beacuse of “rebelling” to the family.
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jo
// Nov 14, 2008 at 5:59 am
An interesting look at the role of the family. I imagine it is not easy for parents to give only the basic most necessary help, one would want to stop their from hurting themselves, failing, making mistakes, but because all of these things are very subjective if parents stop their children from these things they also stop them from learning and becoming their own person- it is a very difficult balancing act- not dissimilar to walking a tightrope!
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