Parent-Child Relationship: A Shared Responsibility

Adolescence is considered as critical stage of being a youth. This is where they experiment to get into relationship, which leads into pre-marital sex and exposure to different vices like smoking, drinking liquor and prohibited drugs. They are physically active and inquisitive individuals about how would it feel to experience such delight with some touch of harm. They are satisfying their curiosity while breaking their innocence and rules of their parents by saying goodbye to the avenues of their childhood years while ignoring the significance of their home-grown values.    

Learning to offer some affection, respect and attention to someone is one sign of maturity. Showing one’s inner feelings and sensitivities to someone would connect to a social network and communication lines of mutual calls and text messaging. Understanding and sharing same emotions between opposite sex would sometimes lead to different moods and directions either choosing the way gearing towards inspiration to make their dreams come true or taking the risk of pre-marital sex.

No matter how the parents are serious about giving them proper guidance and discipline, children still have their personal willingness to make decisions for their own good and fulfilment that served as their satisfaction. Sometimes there are people who need to experience things first before they fully realized the effect or advantages and disadvantages of certain consequences. Even though, lot of similar stories have been heard and seen, these are still not enough to convince them that little spark of lighting a cigarette and barely shot of wine could bring them to the firestorm of hell.

Aside from getting involved into several relationships without commitment, they also tried out drinking liquors and cigarettes as outlet to momentarily forget their growing problems with their girlfriend or boyfriend even their failing grades in school and increasing demands of parents at home. They started the blaze expecting to have a good meal afterwards without knowing how to control the bonfire until it burns the whole camp.

Leaving them alone in the middle of nowhere is not a good decision for parents with delinquent family member. They must be resilient to accept whatever their child has done wrong for anyone and for any reason. Their responsibility as parents never ends that way. It is not enough that they provided their children with food every day, materials needed for school and allowance for daily expenses but more of their loving care and attention especially in moments of adversity with no one to support them and hold on their sentiments.

Acquired behaviour of some children from home might change as they enter to the different thresholds and environment without boundaries and restrictions. They will encounter people with different personalities until they have influenced by numerous thoughts and destructive ideas. The social behaviour of every individual is being influenced by certain negativities if the person himself allows it to enter and enjoy it to explore his inner being until it becomes a habit.

 Knowing one’s limitations and safe level or degree of life’s satisfaction must be set to the living standard of youth today. They must realize the importance of do’s and don’ts, the set of house rules and regulations being imposed by their parents, school officials or any individual with authority to speak before them. Children must not ignore giving importance to the moral values taught by parents through paying them respect and gratitude, meeting all the school requirements until graduation and giving them honor to all things they have done with all sacrifices of fulfilling their obligations.

            Having a good relationship is a shared responsibility. Problems might occur in unexpected occasion but the warmth dedication between parents and children would never cease and the connection as one great family would never be unchained.