The book picture Perfect is about a boy who'S best friend goes missing. Durring the story, thr boy is blambed for his disappearance while struggling to balabce his second personality named Ian that he beleives is just an imaginary friend. In the end it turns out that his Dad really was behind not only his friends disappearance, but also behind why he has a split personality. Even though his father is the cause to all this boys problems, the boy just wants to make his father happy and proud of him.
Where is the line for parents to say that a child has made them proud? It is as far as causing mental abuse, or is it as close as a hug? Could the parents just not know where to draw the line in the first place?
I think parents get blind by their own ambition and their own selfish desires. Look at alot of the parents of people we know. They push and push their kids to be the best at sports and/or school. They want them to be popular and to have boyfriends/girlfriends and be the apple of everyone's eye. However, they don't want this for their kids, they want it for themselves. They are living through their children b/c they miss their high school days. sadly, it was the best years of their lives. They never grew up. Parents know the line for their kids need to make them proud, they dont know the line for their need to go back to high school.
ReplyDeleteI think that sometimes parents live their own dreams off of their children. They want their children to do what they couldn't do, or be who they couldn't be. In some cases parents tend to use their children in order to achieve goals that they never did. When coming up with a way to explain their actions they will often times use the typical excuse "I want whats best for my child." However in reality they just want what they never had. Maybe when their kids are younger it is healthy to get them involved with activites that they liked when they were younger, but when it gets to the point when they are forcing their kids to do something they don't want to do it is completley crossing the line.
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