Should Parenting And Friendship With Our Children Coexist?

For a while now, many researches has been done and a lot of theories has been raised on the concept of parenting and friendship with our children. Some say it's not appropriate for friendship and parenting to coexist at the same time and others are also saying otherwise.

As for me, I don't see anything wrong with a parent being friends with his or her child. When I was a child, my parents didn't create a zone for friendship for me and my siblings, so trust me, there's a huge effect of that on the children. Not being a friend to your ward or child causes them to sometimes trust the people they're not supposed to trust, most especially their peers. It tends to push them away, into the outside world and this causes them to make certain decisions that most of them regrets when they grow up.

Being friends with your child is one of the best things a mother or a father can offer to their children. Kids feels more secured when the see their parents as their friends. It helps them to release that traffic of emotional and psychological problems that they have no one to share with. Being a friend to your child creates a smooth relationship that helps the child to run to you when he/she faces any difficulty.

Now, when parenting and friendship coexist, creating a balance becomes the greatest concern. Most people fail to draw a line between parenting and friendship and this leads to one overriding the other. Children must know the limit of their friendship with their parents. This is the reason why most people rebate to the fact that parenting and friendship must coexist.

Once this balance is created, there'll be no need to argue on this fact.
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