Parenting is more like a responsibility, more than a decision. Parents need counselling too, just like kids. Before parents, individuals need to become good humans, with a sense of empathy and tints of emotional quotient. Unless you can understand your own emotions, you can’t understand how others feel. Emotional quotient matters when it comes to raising a child. A child is more like a person with feelings and emotions, more than a mere responsibility and investment. Good parents are their kids’ first best friend. They can easily converse with them, without having to conceal anything.
However, in the Asian context, parenting takes a different turn. Kids are pressured into giving up their desires and dreams for the sake of their parents. Parental pressure is something very real, raw and crude at a grassroot level in India. It is essential for parents to understand that every child is unique, possessing different skills, varying from each other. Every colour under the sky is very well a part of this universe, deserving equal chance. Compulsion can only lead to a life of regret. Toxic parenting across Asian households is truly a subject which can be studied. Our society is the problem sometimes, not an individual.
