Father’s day
-Being a ‘good father’, doesn’t mean to be ‘good as father’-
Specialists in education agree on this phrase, and we all follow patterns of behavior that identify us in one of the following categories:
Helicopter fathers — They are the ones who protect their children at the expense of everything.
Marshmallow fathers — These fathers are practically controlled by their children, because they are excessively permissive.
Authoritarian fathers — They are always inflexible and don’t allow their children to express their opinions.
Negligent fathers — They completely abandon the education and care of their children.
Democratic fathers — They have good communication with their children, they listen to them, but they know how to be demanding and set limits.
It is clear that the education that we, ourselves, receive from our parents, determines a lot the behavior we will have with our children. Therefore, falling into one of the first four categories is not necessarily so bad or irreversible.
On the other hand, because of their role as providers of the household, men are the ones who usually stay more time away from home, and therefore it is the mother who performs most of that work; but even so, the influence of the father is always definitive in the upbringing of the children. It is that role in the outside world which many children admire in their parents and which makes them feel proud, because they are the ones who work hard for them, they are the strong ones of the house... the protectors.
Just as mothers are the ones who give tenderness, affection and care to their children; with their “strength,” fathers are the ones who maintain balance and union in the family.
Who is in charge of the repairs in the house? Who picks up the branches and cuts the grass? Who buy dinner on Sundays? And who draws attention when there is some indiscipline? Of course it is the father, and these are actions that most people carry out with pleasure, since they view it as an important part of their lives.
There will always be some lazy ones who don’t cope well with their work, but most strive every day to make their families happy... Long live the dads!
