This week, we looked at two different pieces that both had one thing in common. That thing would be the fact that the authors had unconventional parenting. But what exactly counts as unconventional parenting?
Strictly speaking, parents really only get prior experience with the idea of parenting as a child. And their parents have the same issue, and so on so forth. So strictly speaking, I guess it can be claimed that no parent truly understands parenting. And parenting is almost certainly impacted by culture as well. For example, when we were discussing all of the different relationships we had with our parents, I found that my Asian parents acted more like other Asian parents than they acted like parents with other racial backgrounds. As for why, I suspect that culturally, parents have always raised their children how they have seen others do so, and so cultures that have never "met" until recently have never been aware of the shortcomings and advantages of all other cultures.
But it parents are so inexperienced, then I guess it can also be claimed that no one truly has parents who do their parenting duties in a "conventional" way, because no one has the experience to define any one style as "conventional." So I guess ultimately in the two pieces, unconventional as the parents were they really weren't any more unconventional than any one else.
And yes, I am just waiting for someone to respond "The Glass Castle."
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