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What metrics are used to determine if one is a good parent?
It may sound like a simple question, perhaps it is, but I always wondered how does one truly now if one is a good parent. I suppose the way the child turns out is the first answer to come to mind, but I am certain that some bad people had good parents, so how does one know.
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October 17, 2009 10:17 PM
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You know. You know if you are giving your children the time and attention that they deserve. If you're not sure that you are, then you aren't. That is what kids want and need more than anything else: your time and attention.
People who are too busy doing other things to think about spending time with their kids definitely are not good parents.
The only people who don't know -- deep down inside -- if they are good parents or not are people who are mentally incapable of being good parents. If you are able to read this, then you are not one of those.
People who are too busy doing other things to think about spending time with their kids definitely are not good parents.
The only people who don't know -- deep down inside -- if they are good parents or not are people who are mentally incapable of being good parents. If you are able to read this, then you are not one of those.
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October 18, 2009 02:34 AM
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By whether or not the kids grow up to be psycho, and even then the kid might have just been born that way...
And that's about as far as you can push *any* metric when it comes to evaluating someone's grade as a parent!
If you want to start applying parent-qualification metrics, then first make it so that not only must they have a license to get married, but they should require a second license to have kids, to be granted after having passed some sort of parent-training course...
Otherwise, it's more of a quantum yes/no kind of grade... not a metric.
Is the kid out there feeding him/herself without crime? Yes? Great... you passed as a parent.
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And that's about as far as you can push *any* metric when it comes to evaluating someone's grade as a parent!
If you want to start applying parent-qualification metrics, then first make it so that not only must they have a license to get married, but they should require a second license to have kids, to be granted after having passed some sort of parent-training course...
Otherwise, it's more of a quantum yes/no kind of grade... not a metric.
Is the kid out there feeding him/herself without crime? Yes? Great... you passed as a parent.
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October 18, 2009 03:30 AM
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To me good parenting can be seen immediately. Is the child happy, fed and healthy? (I exclude clean because I have kids, and dirty doesn't equate bad parenting it equates to a living child lol)
If those three basic requirements are there, that's a good parent in my book.
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If those three basic requirements are there, that's a good parent in my book.
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