The ‘Perfect’ Parents | Newborn Home Photography
There are no perfect parents.
Human to begin with, are not perfect.
We often hear parents who chastise or gossip about other parents for not being ‘good parents’.
What defines good parent or good parenting even?
Researchers, Child Psychologist, Counselors, Progressive Parents and many more have come out with all sort of theories on what it takes to be good parents.
One of those include never laying a hand or raise your voice on a child, dissing constant praises and encouragement – in all parents have to be saint and sage-like.
Mothers, ideally are still expected to be the one to care for the children, be at their beck and call because it is them who is the ultimate caretaker.
Those who defy the odds are then shunned, gossiped and criticised.
When it comes to children, almost everything seemed sacrilegious.
Parents often stressed and battle with the notion of what is right and is wrong and should be avoided for fear of damaging their children.
We all want to strive for perfection, some because they do want to repeat what they’ve been through, others, just want to be the perfect role model for their children.
However it is also important to note that sometimes in order to achieve perfection, we might lose a little of the rawness of what’s real.
There is not mathematical formulae to being the ultimate parents but we can all remember that at the end, it bores down to what the journey parents and child go through together through mutual understanding and most importantly what brings the utmost happiness to your child.
“Parenting has nothing to do with perfection. Perfection isn’t even the goal, not for us, not for our children. Learning together to live well in an imperfect world, loving each other despite or even because of our imperfections, and growing as humans while we grow our little humans, those are the goals of gentle parenting. So don’t ask yourself at the end of the day if you did everything right. Ask yourself what you learned and how well you loved, then grow from your answer. That is perfect parenting.”
― L.R. Knost, The Gentle Parent: Positive, Practical, Effective Discipline
