HW 57: Parenting

The most logical approach I can think of to raising children (since I have no experience and can only theorize) is to come up with a list of qualities you want your children to have and come up with a parenting system to cultivate those qualities. The next step is to learn which parenting techniques can reasonably encourage that kind of growth in their child. For instance if a parent wants their child to be more independent then they should let them do things on their own even if it involves getting a little hurt, when children learn to fall on their own, they learn to get up on their own.

The challenge with parenting is deciding which qualities to develop in their child, how to develop those qualities and making sure those techniques work well all together. This includes the technique of giving your child a fun childhood to enable them to be a happy adult, if the other techniques are detrimental to a good childhood then the result is either an internally conflicted child or the child just won't become a happy adult as the parent planned because the other parenting technique overshadows it. All the parenting techniques that parents use to raise their kids have to work together otherwise their children will receive mixed messages.