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Why do (should) children obey their parents?

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But why parents? Why that nuclear family of two parents? What if there was a class of parents - specializing in parenting - that would collectively raise each successive generation? And before you knock it, try looking at it less critically and come up with a few positive points.

To restate this, is a family the optimal way of raising children? We have teachers that provide our collective education, health care specialists that provide for our collective health - what about having "parents", professional and trained to raise children? Would it be better to do away with family and familial ties and move towards a more collective society?
 
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I fully believe that children age 5 and over are fully capable of coming up with their own conclusions and sense of ethics. This is due to a study that shows children are first able to ACTUALLY QUESTION the universe around them starting around the age of 4. Parents exist to nurture a child AKA take care of them until their bodies and brains have gotten to the point where they can function on their own - even better if the children have attained a level of expertise in something by that time.

My single mother had to work time and time again, all the time, just to support me. I had to RAISE myself. I believe that children are fully able to rule themselves. I do not think children should have to even think about education until the age of ten so that they can spend ten years of their lives just interacting with nature and other people in a way that helps them adjust to reality better.

The Ten Commandments - I'm not religious but they have some wisdom in them - say that you should respect your father and your mother. My mother did the best she could but she never respected ME. My father is a constant criminal. You are an individual. If you respect someone and they respect you, that's great! But if they don't respect you, why should you respect them? This is esp. the case if you have TRIED to respect them only for them to never return that respect.

I appreciate everything my mother did for me. I don't hate her. But when I have a child, I'll nurture them yet let them decide for themselves what is right and wrong, truth and lie. I don't think parents should be slaves to their children - still, children should not be slaves to their parents. We're all EQUAL, no matter our age, and we should ALL treat each other as such.
 
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Parents who don't give their children guidance, even past the age of 18 (cause that's when life really starts) can only be called a parent in a bio sense. They need to be able to teach their children what they know to be true in the world. and if u need help help as a parent, u need to look for help from anywhere u deem appropriate cause that's ur child. YOU gotta step up. u can even go and ask your parents/guardians or at least ask yourself what they would do if u respect them, cause if your really trying at this then they must have been doing something right. I'm not out the house yet, I'm Mom is high strung on things and my Dad is just kinda trying to get beck into the family. I've learned a lot about life and from other things like Tv but i do know that they know a lot about stuff i haven't even realized. I just need to ask.

And for those who think they deserve the same respect from their parents as to them, please remember first of all they can make someone who looks like you and raise it better than you because they practiced on u. Honest the fact is that you were born is enough of a reason to give respect. and on top of that they do even more O.o for what reason? idk. Secondly before the point of 18, what have you done for your parents that is more than what they have done for you? most of you, nothing. keeping in the part that they made you, you will never reach. They also have seniority.
and they all have been at our stage in life, learning and growing, maybe thinking we all have it figured out. when we don't. Obliviously. Its just that some people clearly know more than others (Like Teachers, The Boss or your company, your Parents, your parents' parents)

Edit: seriously, people think that they deserve things JUST cause they were born. News flash, so are all the licks of grass in the dirt. another reason is needed.
 
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