Friday, October 2, 2009

about parenting

originally written on :Tuesday, May 26, 2009

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Today I was so tired after the exam, I decided to sleep for couple hours and rest after that hard day.Few moments later after falling asleep I woke up on the sound of a crying little boy and a mother that is screaming out as if she was on fire!


I could hear every single word that woman was saying despite the long distance of gardens between our house and our neighbor's house… The woman was shouting at the little crying boy with something like "law 3amltaha tany ana hakweek bel nar !! Kam mara ha2olak lazem te3ml fel toilet ana hawareeek !!!!!!" and then the little kid start screaming like hell .. And I couldn't imagine what could she possibly be doing to that poor boy ! (note that the boy sounded like 2-3 years old at most )
Seriously, I've seen such situations where the parent - specially moms- scream and shout at their kids , slam them on the face, make the kid feel like he's the worst kid in the world.
Don't they realize the impact of their actions on their own child ? I mean just yelling in their face like that will create a low self-esteemed person, a person who will be afraid of the entire world, thinking that he's the worst human on earth !
I remember one of my friends once told me something that I will never forget, she said that human by nature knows how to be a mother or a father by protecting the kids from being harmed .. But knowing how to raise a kid into a healthy person that will survive this life, that is something that you must learn. Like if you want to speak French then you have to buy French books and take it step by step till you actually know how to speak the language, the same goes for parenting, if you want to be a parent.. a good parent, then you must read and learn about parenting, ask experts how to deal with your kids in different situations you face with that kid .. And for God's sake, please don't rely on your experience with your own father and mother .. you are NOT them, you are a different person, you have your own dreams and expectations in the child you want to bring to this world .. so you will have to do it your own way.
Anyway, I probably should try to go continue sleeping now and just hope that I don’t have nightmares of that woman trying to kill her son !

1 comments:

Mohaly said...

ok sweet dreams then :)