Being a parent is without a doubt the most difficult task given to a person, or should I say a person is "blessed" with. Sadly, not everyone can keep up with their job and perfect it. A parent would be lucky if he/she went half the way to be honest.
As generations pass by, we look back and realize how kids lived their lives; as actual kids. Nowadays, kids who are 5 are living a life of a 10 year old; and kids who are 13 are living a life of a 18 year old, and it goes on. It's sad how kids are trying so hard to be what they aren't while they're missing out the best years of their lives. I look back at my childhood and say "those were the days..", and it makes me sad knowing that those kids who are now grownups will never have the opportunity to use that phrase.
As generations change, parents change, therefore kids change. Through my discussions with parents nowadays, I found out that they decide to give their kids everything they "want" even if it doesn't apply to their age; just because they don't want the child to find another way to get it. e.g(behind their backs).
The fact that parents are taking the easy way to solve this issue, giving the kid what he wants just to not cause themselves headaches takes away all the beauty behind being a parent.
Kids might want a lot of things in life, someday they might even come back home from school having the stupidest ideas wanting to take the craziest action.
Growing up, my parents never gave me a reason to do something that they don't know of, neither did they give me the world in my hand as a child. For instance, when I was 10 all my friends had mobile phones, were allowed to go out alone, and much more. I didn't do any of the following, not because they couldn't afford a mobile phone, or they didn't want me to have fun. No, they summarized it all in one single sentence, " We trust you, we just don't trust the people around you". As shocking as it may seem, eventually I came around the technique they chose to raise me by, as a matter of fact friends would walk up to me and tell me "is it because they don't trust you?" and I would just smile back at them and know in my head that they trust me enough to talk to me about it face to face instead of just letting me do whatever I wanted to do so they wouldn't deal with my "wants and needs".
I had fun, I went out, and I lived my childhood. I just did it in a much different way from how everyone else did it; and honestly? If I ever had to go back to those days, I would do that blindly.
Everyone can be parents, but not everyone succeeds in being a "mother" or a "father".