Good Parents
. I am so grateful to have such an honour standing here to deliver my speech entitled “What does it take to be good parents?”.
What Does It Take to be Good Parents? Good morning ladies and gentlemen. I am Chong Cia Ling, the founder of BrainyMontessori. I am so grateful to have such an honour standing here to deliver my speechentitled “What does it take to be good parents?”. I am sure all the parents here will agreewith me that being parents is tough. Bringing up children is a very difficult task.Everyone wishes to be good parents. However, sometimes we could be so discouragedand helpless when we get the feedback that we are not good parents although we havedone our upmost to provide the best for our children. What is the cause of that? Today, letus learn how to be good parents together. A parent is said to be a good parent only after seeing how he has brought up hischildren. They should bring up the children in a very good discipline. However, we needto bear in mind that discipline does not mean that they have to punish their children forevery wrong doing. Recently there is a famous video of a Texas judge hitting his teenagedaughter repeatedly with a belt. This father justified his actions as “discipline.” I beg todiffer. According to the video, the father is not disciplining his daughter. He is engagingin an act of punishment intent on hurting, humiliating and controlling her!Well, it is common that children do mistakes. Yet, what a good parent must do ishe has to teach him how to differentiate what is good and what is bad. We need tounderstand that giving punishment especially physical punishment will not help childrenin a way instead it will create new problems. Indeed, it hurts. For instance, children willbecome rebellious as they have already got used to the corporal punishment. Eventually,they will develop hatred towards their parents. Deborah Sendek (2011) also claims that physical punishment is ineffective
What Does It Take to be Good Parents? Good morning ladies and gentlemen. I am Chong Cia Ling, the founder of BrainyMontessori. I am so grateful to have such an honour standing here to deliver my speechentitled “What does it take to be good parents?”. I am sure all the parents here will agreewith me that being parents is tough. Bringing up children is a very difficult task.Everyone wishes to be good parents. However, sometimes we could be so discouragedand helpless when we get the feedback that we are not good parents although we havedone our upmost to provide the best for our children. What is the cause of that? Today, letus learn how to be good parents together. A parent is said to be a good parent only after seeing how he has brought up hischildren. They should bring up the children in a very good discipline. However, we needto bear in mind that discipline does not mean that they have to punish their children forevery wrong doing. Recently there is a famous video of a Texas judge hitting his teenagedaughter repeatedly with a belt. This father justified his actions as “discipline.” I beg todiffer. According to the video, the father is not disciplining his daughter. He is engagingin an act of punishment intent on hurting, humiliating and controlling her!Well, it is common that children do mistakes. Yet, what a good parent must do ishe has to teach him how to differentiate what is good and what is bad. We need tounderstand that giving punishment especially physical punishment will not help childrenin a way instead it will create new problems. Indeed, it hurts. For instance, children willbecome rebellious as they have already got used to the corporal punishment. Eventually,they will develop hatred towards their parents. Deborah Sendek (2011) also claims that physical punishment is ineffective