Role models ...
... We're always on the prowl for them, especially parents. Parents desperately seeking role models for their kids. For a good few years I always wondered why there was this obsession for having people 'the kids should look up to'.
Parents seem to look everywhere, especially allover the media but there is always one place that tends to get overlooked - at home. I'm sure the phrase 'home is where the heart is' could and should apply to this to right?
Why not be that role model that you are so desperately seeking?
I'm not sure if it's due to feeling inadequate, or not really thinking about it but a lot of the times we are pushed to find role models ... out there, in the big wide world.
These days, a lot of parenting is done outside of the home, with people actually spending less time at home. Kids are in school most of the day, parents are working most their days and the weekends both are too busy to spend time with the other.
We expect the education system to discipline the kids, and celebrities (who for the most part are kids themselves) to lead kids down the right path.
These should take root at the home and maybe a little influenced by these outside factors and not the other way round. Rather than pushing the likes of Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus on the kids and then flying into rages when they either grow up or if they don't live up to the expectations put on them.
Role models are just simply role models,they aren't gods - they are human beings too and as humans we are known for making mistakes.
If we can get kids to love themselves just half as much as their idols, then the right path is already being achieved. Role model ideals are meant to be adaptable and transferable and relevant to our lives and we are meant to find ways to filter those positive ideals into our lives and not the other way round.
Kids just need to learn to love themselves, appreciate themselves and learn to want to be the best that they can be and the best people that can teach them that are the parents.
