RE: LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR GREAT PARENTING - LOH 186

fair points to base parenting around. I agree with the accountability and source of income. Godly foundation i can agree with to some extent but personally i might expand it to a moral foundation/ moral compass. Sometimes I find organized religion to not be as moral as it should be tbh. but this is a matter of taste and having such a foundation is better than having no foundation at all.

Source of income is my top one. Don't have children if you cannot afford to take care of them. This is one place where i have issues with organized religions because they always stress on procreation and we see so many poor people keep having hordes of children to satisfy the religious guidance. these poor kids might have loving parents but they end up starting work as kids rather than have that period of study and growing up in a relaxed manner that we were privileged to get.

About accountability I hear you and agree with you completely, except for one point. We should not close our mind to deviations. Parents do have the biggest impact till our late teens, but the situation around us also have a major impact on our growth. in my generation the big bad world was open to us much later in our teens than it is for children today. There is a time in every child's life as they reach adulthood where parents turn from gods to human beings with possible failings. Sometimes these failings are just a perception, like "my dad must be a weak man as he is always compromising and never ready to fight like that don in the movies or the angry uncle down the street" Much later we understand how much of a gentleman dad was. So in this time of rebel behavior in our late teens and early adulthood we can easily deviate if we get ourselves into the wrong group, and particularly into substance abuse. I have seen too many good parents be villified for things outside their control, hence I have to disagree with the deviation point, if that's alright.

Cheers from a fellow #dreemerforlife