On Merciless Parents by Mariam A.

    Being a parent can be one of the most rewarding and fulfilling experiences in life. And, parenting is a big event that must change the lives of the parents and the children to the best. However, some parents are not doing the best job. Due to their apathy, some parents act in an irresponsible way with their children, which usually results in devastated children. So, there are several parents that raise their children in a violent way.

     One type of bad parents is the uncaring parents that do not pay attention to anything regarding their children. These parents are the ones who  look like strangers with their children; they prevent love and affection to their children and do not share good things with them. For instance, if their daughter is going to attend and represent in a play or theatre, they will not consider  watching her play. They also give no time to listen to their children and usually try to shut them up  because those parents are so busy with other stuff and are not ready to be close friends to their children. Another thing that they do is not controlling their temper and wears the state of being angry all the time, which makes the children afraid and hesitated to face their parents and discuss problems with them. Consequently, if a kid is facing a conflict in his school, for example, not having friends or his peers are making jokes on him, he will not be able to tell his parents and thus he will be personally harmed.

      Another type of parents is those who do not praise their children. They always direct bad complains to their children and never let them feel that they did something good.  Also, they tend to marginalize every single act done by their kids and thus breaking up their self-confidence.  Those parents are bad enough to cause serious psychological problems to their children. For example, if the kid solved a mathematical problem wrong in the first time his mother will not wait to let him understand and resolve it again but she’ll start shouting on him. Also, this could happen in front of his friends or peers. Another example is that a father one day mocked his child for the reason of being left-handed and even forced him to use his right hand, which is so difficult for the child but he is obliged to do it.

    One more type of bad parents and the most dangerous one are those who  strike and hit their kids violently. The main response for anything that their children do is “hitting them”. So, if their child says something wrong or tried to do a bad thing they usually act back with violence. For instance, a child once a time tried to hold the knife and play with it, instead of taking the knife from him and trying to inform the kid that this is dangerous and you are not allowed to play with it, they immediately take the knife and slap their child, same thing they do if their child tried to write on the wall or damage a game. This could result in having a damaged-personality children on one hand, and very violent children on the other hand.   

           

    Parenting is an important task and should be held accurately because it will lead to the production of the new generation. So, being a good parent will result in a well-developed generation and being a bad parent will develop a bad generation.  Bad parents are also divided into many types. So what are the steps that should be taken to ensure that  parents be responsible? Should they be trained,  given some advice, or motivated? Should parents be forced to stop this abuse by setting some rules and restrictions?