Today a brief statement about parents were made and how they relate to children. While on this topic for a brief second, I pondered many questions about parent/ child relationships. For one thing is it possible (in the nature of mothers ) for mothers to despise/ hate/ envy their children. When I was in high school my teacher explained to the class that the reason why our mothers yell at their daughters for wearing "revealing clothing," is because mothers envy their children for their youth. Is that why we have so many restrictions when we are teenagers (especially girls) or is it just parental nurturing? Is it possible that secretly our mothers and our fathers hate the fact that we are young, vibrant and free and they are getting on in age?
Another thing that came to my mind is how much percent does nurture really play in a person's life. Maybe, for the beginning of a child's life the parent is able to mold the child into a "perfect citizen" and it is only when they are released into the world when they start to see choices that their parents hid from them. They then abandon principals, morals, and ethics they were grown with and let nature takes its course. Is it possible for a kid to be fully nurture or would a parent have to shield the kid from the outside world?
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I suspect your teacher had a specific relationship in mind; most mothers/fathers, I'd bet, don't envy or resent, but rather desperately hope to protect, their children.
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