The Long and the Short of Parenting
By Jennifer Lade - December 22, 2017
In my previous article, I talked about how parenting is a sentence. It is served by parents to their children for the “crime” of creating a child without his or her consent. In this article, we’re going to look at how this parenting sentence should play out.
Parenting consists of thousands of interactions between parent and child which, as a whole, influence what the child becomes. These interactions can be random reactions to the actions of the child. But they can also be purposeful, working toward an end.
It is impossible for every single interaction with a child to be replete with purpose. But keeping the long-term goals for their child in mind can help parents do better in the short term.
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