Not Spending Enough Time with Your Child? Don’t Fall Into the Bad Parenting Trap

Today’s working parents have an understandably stressful life. They must juggle the demands of work with the proper upbringing of their children. These people try to balance both, trying to avoid the idea of bad parenting at all costs.

However, there are some people that knowingly ignore their children. Whether these parents know it or not, they are unquestionably practicing bad parenting habits.

Selfishness: The Key to Bad Parenting

Although child abuse is, of course, the worst form of bad parenting there is, parents who do not spend time with their children can be almost just as bad. Children act out when they are ignored, and thus selfishness on the part of the parents is clearly bad parenting that can result in the emotional scarring of the children.

Parents that ignore their children create a bad parenting habit that is becoming increasingly more common. This is a world where more and more people are working long hours at jobs, but the root of the parents ignoring their children has to do with who they are as people.

Although having children has become less and less common among couples that know they want place an emphasis on their career and each other, there are still those people that have children as part of the status quo. Once they have their children, these people (assuming that they have the financial means) often hire nannies to take care of their children, and thus the nannies become surrogate parents.

No matter how close a child becomes to his or her nanny, just knowing that they live in a home with parents who are very rarely present often makes them think they are not wanted and it must be their fault. Parents of this nature are often unaware of their children’s feelings, and the emotional distance that results between these parents and their children is disheartening.

Simply put, there are far too many unwanted children in this world, and something needs to be done about it. People who are looking to have children must carefully consider if they have the right personalities to do so, and if they will be able to provide their children with the emotional support that they deserve.

To avoid bad parenting, parents need to love and nurture their children. The parents that provide a loving environment for their children are unselfishly providing the basis for a wonderful relationship, the kind that makes parenting truly wonderful.