The unrecognised dads and mums

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During Mother's Day and Father's Day, appreciation is shown for the patience and care our parents have shown (if they had shown) us in bringing us up throughout the decades. I would like to highlight a large group of people who have never been appreciated before on such days: those who have childish parents (and I don't mean parents with regressive minds).

Oh yes, I know that some people may think it's ridiculous to compare decades of bringing us up from babies till young adults with a few years of taking care of childish parents. Well, think about this way: our parents have the advantage as starting of as parents since we were babies. We feared them. We respected them. We looked up to them. We admired them. Therefore it is much harder for us to have our roles reversed i.e. we have to be parents to them when they are childish. We want to scold and punish them and yet have to do it without raised voice, with careful words and, impossible it may sound, with respect. I put to you that this is a harder role to play.

So to all guys out there with childish parents, I wish you belated Happy Father's Day and best of luck!

Comments

MrBunnyBan said…
Wah. Don't be so hard on them lar. They are adults after all, childish or not.
June 24, 2009 at 12:10 AM
Jaded Jeremy said…
Ban,
That's why it's difficult on the children.
June 24, 2009 at 9:39 AM
Jaded Jeremy said…
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June 24, 2009 at 9:39 AM
Reszurrecdito M. d'Saintner said…
When they are old, we have to take care of them already. After all, they are the ones who raised us from young little ones to adults.
June 24, 2009 at 10:47 PM
Jaded Jeremy said…
Mannpriedo d'Saintner,
True but just as they have disciplined us for our own good, they too sometimes need discpline for their own good...and for our sanity.
June 25, 2009 at 12:04 AM
William said…
Parents will be parents. Kids will be kids. We have no choice. It has been ordained. :P
June 26, 2009 at 9:45 PM
Jaded Jeremy said…
William,
The problem arises when parents behave as kids i.e. childishly.
June 26, 2009 at 9:49 PM
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