How much should parents “protect” their children
Parents should protect their children at all times from hurting themselves or others (safety). When children are very young they learn their parents will protect them from all harm and be there to defend them, no matter what. By modeling this behavior the child will learn how to protect themselves and teach others and/or pass this on to their children.
Protecting your child is, and should be, a 24/7 job until they learn how to protect themselves while learning the basics of right and wrong behavior. Once the right vs wrong behavior is learned the parents need to monitor that the behavior is being learned and then the child can then start protecting themselves.
Protection can take many forms, such as should a parent continue to protect the child from punishment when they know they have done wrong, hurt someone and/or broken the law? In this case the parent needs to analyze whether the behavior needs to be reported to right a wrong. In this case protection takes on more of duty to do the right thing and protect your child from going in the wrong direction. Protecting the child can also be pointing them in the right direction to do the right thing.
January 23rd, 2007 at 12:19 pm
I disagree with the statement that ‘parents should protect their children at all times.’ Actually, I think I’ll write a post on it… =)
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