Every family has a strange practice that the dependents should follow.
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I don’t question my parents’ rules in our house until I’m in the age of reason. I remember that time when I cannot have a spree with my PlayStation for about a month because.. it’s evil. My brother, in high school, can’t join the Karate Club because he will get hurt. What? Says who? What’s the basis? But see, we’re dependents so we better just follow.
A recent questionable parenting is that of Beck Laxton and Kieran Cooper, who didn’t reveal their child’s gender until his 5th age. Sasha is anatomically a boy but they dress him in a girl’s clothes and play with dolls. They even let Sasha decide which clothes to wear in school, either a girl or a boy’s uniform.
Our judgment won’t matter because it’s parents’ choice. Here are more strange parenting practices that ought to raise our eyebrows.
Amy Chua
When daughter Lulu could’t play a piano piece, Amy would “threaten her with no lunch, no dinner, no Christmas or Hanukkah presents, no birthday parties for two, three, four years. When she still kept playing it wrong, I told her she was purposely working herself into a frenzy because she was secretly afraid she couldn’t do it. I told her to stop being lazy, cowardly, self-indulgent and pathetic.”
Lina Medina
Lina gave birth to her eldest at the age of 5 years old and 7 months. How does this happen? She is suffering from Precocious Puberty. So with early sexual development, she gave birth and regards her son a mere younger brother. She even prefers dolls that spending time with her son. The sad case is that they never knew who the father was.
The Duggar Family
With 20 children so far this 2012, Duggar family is huge. And they plan to have as much children as possible.
They are happy, debt free and self-supporting. I hope they think of forming their own Duggar football team!
Michael Jackson
We know the story. Michael is an overprotective father. He doesn’t want his children to be picked on just because their father sings thriller, so everytime they’ll go public, they have to wear masks. They never go schooling with other kids, but adhered on homeschooling. Well, I guess they’re stucked at home for a long time.
Steve Russo
Perhaps Steve would do all it takes to ensure manhood of his son. He organized a party with alcohols like vodka and rum, and a stripper’s pole. Photos are idiotically uploaded to Facebook, which favored his arrest for “giving booze to minors, endangering the welfare of children and corruption of minors”.
Do you have any unconventional parenting experiences within your family?
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Great post!…I believe every single person in the entire world has been brought up with parents who live by rules that don’t necessarily make sense to the child and, accordingly, the child spends most of his life rebelling against what his/her parents thought was the “right” way.
That’s what I feel actually. But I guess I will never understand it because I’m not a parent yet. Thank you for your thoughts!
Being a parent is one of the most difficult jobs ever. And in like any other job, we, parents, don’t always make the best choices… We cannot or should not give our kids everything they want because their judgement is not as good as their parents’; they are just kids who are learning about what’s good and what’s bad, what is acceptable in society and what is not. Unfortunately, sometimes, some parents are also terrible at this, too.
Yeah, being a parent is difficult because you have a huge responsibility and there’s no way you can fully be prepared with it. You could take parenting classes and all but still, this is a whole new different experience where you learn along the way.
My parents were supportive, loving and for the most part, normal. But my best friend is another story: Her father is in his late 70’s, making him over 50 years older than her, a multi-millionaire, the father of 6 from 4 different marriages and slightly prejudice. Her mother on the other hand, has been married three times, has filed bankruptcy and depended on her to help pay her bills almost her whole life. A few years ago, her sister passed away, so her and her mother are now raising her sister’s young children. My friend spent her entire life figuring out how to get money from her father in order to help her mother pay her bills. Her father does not get along with her mother, as my friend was conceived from a fleeting 3-month romance. Crazy.
All in all, she is a happy, healthy, successful person. And resourceful I might add!
Whew, that is crazy! I’m sorry to say it this way but the dad is about to die anyway. Wouldn’t she get a share in her dad’s fortune when that happened? It’s good that your friend is happy by the way.
Good parents are human and make mistakes. The best we can hope for is to not make too many or any that are so severe that the child will require therapy later in life. Bad parents are human and make mistakes as well – the difference is they have no plans on ever admitting to making a mistake and think everyone else is wrong.
Me – I just subscribe to the “evil parent” mantra and will deal with therapy for the kids when/if it is court ordered later. 🙂
True, bad parenting is when you don’t admit your mistakes. You can’t be so perfect not to commit them. And listening to your children’s voice is essential for your good parent-child relationship.