Parenting
To start off, I am not a parent and I don't know the true and real struggles of parenting but after this weeks lesson I have learned a lot about parenting styles and the purpose of parenting. So what are your thoughts on the purpose of parenting? In my own opinion, the purpose of parenting is to help children be ready and prepared to go out and live on their own one day and to help them learn useful skills that they will need for their future. According to Dr. Michael Hopkins, the purpose of parenting is to protect and prepare children to survive and thrive in the world they will live in. Notice that it isn't the world that WE live in. The world is constantly changing every 10 years and so our children will be living in a completely different world than what we grew up in, so as we are raising them and teaching them the skills that they will need for their future it will be important. One of the most important things to teach children growing into young adults is to be