Important Relationships (Journal#14 )

I can’t say that I am in expert in relationship between parents and children in USA. I have been here for 2 months and I hadn’t chance to observe such kind of relationships. I know that my neighbors have three boys, but I have never met them outside, because the majority of their free time they spend in front of TV or computer. May be it is the result of hi-tech development and flourishing of home entertainment. On the other hand the reason of keeping children inside of house is parents’ anxiety for their children. Because a lot of dangers lie in wait for kids. All parents want to be sure that their child is in safe place and doesn’t experience negative influence. The best secure place for many people is their home. However parents can’t protect their child against all perils of outside world; they can’t accompany their kid all the time, twenty four hours a day. That’s why it is very important to teach and inform children how to behave themselves outside the house. Kids must know what is good and what is bad. They should feel responsibility for their actions and realize consequences of these actions. Some parents totally control their children’s every step; they try to protect their kids against making mistakes. But if children don’t make mistakes they suffer from the lack of life experience in future. Children should have failures and successes in their lives; they should learn to realize that life is not perfect and nobody is perfect. Through making mistakes kids know how to deal with this problem next time. The role of parents is to advice, not to order or command.