Do you have a Phd in Parenting?
I was speaking with a parent the other day who was having some real challenges with his teenage son. He admittted alot of his frustration and concern was about behaviour he had also exhibited when he was a teen.
I listened and then asked him, “Throughout your life as a parent have you taken any parenting courses our read any books on the subject?”
His answer, although typical, also told be alot about why he was having this parent/child conflict. He said, “No one is going to tell me how to raise my child!”
It’s always been one of those puzzling attitudes I have not been able to figure out. If someone wants to build furniture they go getting carpenter training. If someone wants to repairs cars they get trained to be a mechanic. And yet for some odd reason many, many people believe the skills of being an effective parent are genic when in reality they are leaned just like any other skill!