Parents

Oxford Advanced learner’s dictionary simply defines the word ‘parent’ as- “a person’s mother or father”. However, it signifies much more. It also signifies the qualities like love, generosity, benevolence, sacrifice and so forth.

 We often do address the word ‘Parents’ rather than only using the word ‘parent’. This is because a father and a mother, both, as a parent, are the mirrors of the gods to their child. Both the men and the women try their hard to fulfill the responsibilities of being a good parent. They are always indulged in making the every demands of their child fulfilled at any cost. They are the one who do keep the desires of their child above their own needs. Both of them try to find their happiness upon the happiness of the child. When the child is hungry, they tend to make him or her eat first or when the child is crying or is upset, they forget all other worries and tend to make him or her smile. Indeed, it is the quality of every parents to be a supportive and struggling person for their children.

Nevertheless, there lies some social and, indeed some personal, differences in the ways of parenting between the women and the men parents. In most of the societies, it is seen that the men earn for the family (or the children), while the women are careful enough to expend the earned sum in the betterment of the children. In our families, the children more often tend to spend their time with their mother who looks after their most of the activities like eating, playing, clothing, cleanliness to sleeping. It is often the mother who is perfect at these all whereas, the father is often found to have less perfection in these all, compared to the mother.

The way a mother is often very close to her child than a father, is probably due to the cozy environment of her very warm hug and the breastfeeding to the child during his or her entire infancy. Whether or not it has the scientific basis, but it is often seen around that the level of the sacrifice and the love that a mother shows is hardly equated by that of a father. It is the mother who is more worried thinking whether her child has got something to eat or not, when she is not with him or her; it is she who is more tensed if her child doesn’t return home in time, and so forth. Her worries are often more, yet always caring!

 Any though, a father’s love and sacrifice are always praised all over. He is often taken as the symbol of leadership and discipline in the family, who, therefore, is to plant the same qualities in the children. More often, he is the one to interfere and scold the children if they breach the rules or if the mother is unable to make the children controlled. Despite the vast love for his children, a father is often less expressive than a mother is. While the mothers are often soft-hearted, easily emotional, the fathers, on the other hand, are considered to have firmness and to be less emotional.

In a nutshell, despite the commonness and the contrasts between the men and the women as parents, it is the matter of fact that both the parents have an incredible power of love, struggle, sacrifice, support and guidance for their children. Hence, they must always be praised and loved.