Day 105: A Parents Responsibility to Truly Care

What does it mean to be a truly caring parent? Some would say buying lots of toys, sweets, games, celebrating every birthday with huge parties, some would say passing on the family heritage, some would say disciplining every indiscretion the child makes whether it’s minor or major, some would say choosing every decision for our children with our “informed adult mind”. But consider that we as parents have never been trained effectively at being caring parents just like our parents weren’t, I mean it’s not something we had classes for at school and obviously it’s not something that comes naturally - so how can we say we know what it really means to be a caring parent?

When we look at the state of the world, it’s clear that the world our children are growing up in is an absolute atrocity which is only accumulating into a worsening state of disregard for caring of each other – inflating cost of living, record breaking rises in the amount of crime, poverty, rape, diseases happening are all indicators of this degradation of caring in the world.

And what becomes clearer the more we look at this, is that the main reason for the problematic lack of care in the world is our misunderstanding of educations function and true importance in what world is created around us. What I mean by this is that we don’t care enough about education, and so we don’t understand how to create the best in our education, so how we can expect to create the best world possible around us? Its time for us to start caring about building the best education for children, so that we have future adults with integrity and the ability to make a better world.

Money is obviously a huge factor here, because the best education does not come for free in the world we live in, so once we understand the importance of education, as parents we must do all we can to use the money we have to provide the best possible education for our children – forget the mountains of toys, sweets and computer games because while in moderation and with supervision these points are ok, they really are a waste of money on the whole. The best present we can give to our children is the gift of the best education, which is statistically proven to directly decide the quality of a person’s life regarding the jobs they can acquire once they become adults.

So as parents it is our responsibility to give all the nutrients required for our children to grow in this world as a caring human being that can handle the rigours of this world, be stable members of society and have what it takes to make the best of their life and thus create the best for all around them = creating a caring world. So just like a plant if we do not provide sufficient support to our children, then they will not grow and blossom and we will fail in being caring parents.

So these nutrients can only be achieved through education, through making sure we maximize our children’s process of learning to be at its optimum ability in all areas. Understanding that our capacity to comprehend how anything functions is based in our understanding of words, because words create our world, and the more words we know then the more understanding we have of ourselves, our world and thus the more we are empowered to make changes for the best of all in the world.