Why Children Shouldn't Obey Their Parents: A Psychologist Explains

04.01.2023 21:00

Here it is important to understand what and when you should obey your parents.

Often, children are brought up only based on their own experience. It can be rich, varied and in many ways useful to the child. Or maybe not .

Dmitry Raevsky, founder of a network of integrative medicine clinics, pediatrician, specialist in psychosomatics and therapeutic touch, explained why children should not obey their parents.

So often we hear the phrase: "My grandmother was raised this way, your father was brought up this way. They grew up to be good people, so you will be brought up this way too." But our life is changing rapidly.

Both parents and children should also constantly learn new things and get used to new living conditions. For example, digital technologies have appeared that did not exist 20-30 years ago. But this does not mean that if we did not have a phone in our childhood, the child should not have one either.

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You can teach your child to benefit from communicating with digital technologies. For example, in addition to games that "kill" a child's time and take him out of emotional stability, shaking his psyche, there are many educational films, programs, articles that you won't find in libraries.

With the help of the Internet, you can virtually travel around the world, study maps, etc. Using search queries, the Internet can be made truly interesting and useful. And to teach a child all this, you need to learn how to benefit from digital technology yourself.

The second point that parents should understand is that they cannot accurately imagine what skills, abilities and knowledge will be useful to the child in the future. He may not know either, but he can feel it. For example, he chooses the same robotics or building houses from construction sets, cubes.

By questioning a child's choice, not trusting it, parents thus make the child unnecessary. Or, let's say, parents are far from music or sports, respectively, they will not enroll the child in such clubs only because there is no music and sports in their world. But for the child it may not only be interesting, but also useful.

So, in order for children to obey their parents, you need to learn to understand and accept their wishes by any means possible, be interested in modern technologies with them, and read a lot of books. As Albert Einstein said: "If you want your children to be smart, read them fairy tales; if you want them to be even smarter, read them even more fairy tales."

Also dream together, explore the Internet, then the relationship will be built on equal terms, on common interests. If the parent is not interested in living, studying, then the child will not be interested in all this. And he will not listen to empty admonitions of parents, not supported by their own example.

Valeria Kisternaya Author: Valeria Kisternaya Internet resource editor